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*/
package javax.xml.stream.events;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
/**
* An interface that contains information about an attribute. Attributes are reported
* as a set of events accessible from a StartElement. Other applications may report
* Attributes as first-order events, for example as the results of an XPath expression.
*
* @version 1.0
* @author Copyright (c) 2009 by Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
* @see StartElement
* @since 1.6
*/
public interface Attribute extends XMLEvent {
/**
* Returns the QName for this attribute
*/
QName getName();
/**
* Gets the normalized value of this attribute
*/
public String getValue();
/**
* Gets the type of this attribute, default is
* the String "CDATA"
* @return the type as a String, default is "CDATA"
*/
public String getDTDType();
/**
* A flag indicating whether this attribute was actually
* specified in the start-tag of its element, or was defaulted from the schema.
* @return returns true if this was specified in the start element
*/
public boolean isSpecified();
}