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package javax.xml.stream.events;
import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Iterator;
/**
* The StartElement interface provides access to information about
* start elements. A StartElement is reported for each Start Tag
* in the document.
*
* @version 1.0
* @author Copyright (c) 2009 by Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
* @since 1.6
*/
public interface StartElement extends XMLEvent {
/**
* Get the name of this event
* @return the qualified name of this event
*/
public QName getName();
/**
* Returns an Iterator of non-namespace declared attributes declared on
* this START_ELEMENT,
* returns an empty iterator if there are no attributes. The
* iterator must contain only implementations of the javax.xml.stream.Attribute
* interface. Attributes are fundamentally unordered and may not be reported
* in any order.
*
* @return a readonly Iterator over Attribute interfaces, or an
* empty iterator
*/
public Iterator getAttributes();
/**
* Returns an Iterator of namespaces declared on this element.
* This Iterator does not contain previously declared namespaces
* unless they appear on the current START_ELEMENT.
* Therefore this list may contain redeclared namespaces and duplicate namespace
* declarations. Use the getNamespaceContext() method to get the
* current context of namespace declarations.
*
* <p>The iterator must contain only implementations of the
* javax.xml.stream.Namespace interface.
*
* <p>A Namespace isA Attribute. One
* can iterate over a list of namespaces as a list of attributes.
* However this method returns only the list of namespaces
* declared on this START_ELEMENT and does not
* include the attributes declared on this START_ELEMENT.
*
* Returns an empty iterator if there are no namespaces.
*
* @return a readonly Iterator over Namespace interfaces, or an
* empty iterator
*
*/
public Iterator getNamespaces();
/**
* Returns the attribute referred to by this name
* @param name the qname of the desired name
* @return the attribute corresponding to the name value or null
*/
public Attribute getAttributeByName(QName name);
/**
* Gets a read-only namespace context. If no context is
* available this method will return an empty namespace context.
* The NamespaceContext contains information about all namespaces
* in scope for this StartElement.
*
* @return the current namespace context
*/
public NamespaceContext getNamespaceContext();
/**
* Gets the value that the prefix is bound to in the
* context of this element. Returns null if
* the prefix is not bound in this context
* @param prefix the prefix to lookup
* @return the uri bound to the prefix or null
*/
public String getNamespaceURI(String prefix);
}