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SAX2
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SAX2

by David Brownell
January 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
6h 58m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Attribute Information Items

The Attribute Information Items are the contents of the [attributes] property in the element information item. Although the attributes are presented in an order through the Attributes class, there is no expectation that this order reflects an order in the document or its DTD.

Property

Callbacks

Explanation

[namespace name]

Attributes.getURI()

[local name]

Attributes.getLocalName()

[prefix]

Attributes.getQName() (when available)

The QName (namespace-prefixed name) includes any prefix available; for example, a QName xhtml:href uses the prefix xhtml.

[normalized value]

Attributes.getValue()

If you’re generating a stream of Infoset data programmatically, don’t forget to normalize these values correctly. The XML specification explains how to normalize this text; it mostly translates whitespace (but not character references) into space characters and eliminates unneeded spaces for values that aren’t CDATA.

[specified]

unavailable

SAX2 does not distinguish between attribute values that were specified in document text and those that have been defaulted from a DTD. It’s likely that an upcoming extension API will provide this information.

[attribute type]

Attributes.getType(), DeclHandler.attributeDecl()

For most types of attribute, getType() gives all the type data needed, but you may want to distinguish types that are actual CDATA versus (invalid) ones that just look like CDATA because the attribute was not declared. ...

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