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// SAX Attribute List Interface.
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// http://www.saxproject.org
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// No warranty; no copyright -- use this as you will.
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// $Id: AttributeList.java,v 1.1 2004/12/23 22:38:42 mark Exp $
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package org.xml.sax;
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/**
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* Interface for an element's attribute specifications.
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*
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* <blockquote>
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* <em>This module, both source code and documentation, is in the
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* Public Domain, and comes with <strong>NO WARRANTY</strong>.</em>
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* See <a href='http://www.saxproject.org'>http://www.saxproject.org</a>
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* for further information.
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* </blockquote>
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*
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* <p>This is the original SAX1 interface for reporting an element's
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* attributes. Unlike the new {@link org.xml.sax.Attributes Attributes}
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* interface, it does not support Namespace-related information.</p>
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*
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* <p>When an attribute list is supplied as part of a
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* {@link org.xml.sax.DocumentHandler#startElement startElement}
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* event, the list will return valid results only during the
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* scope of the event; once the event handler returns control
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* to the parser, the attribute list is invalid. To save a
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* persistent copy of the attribute list, use the SAX1
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* {@link org.xml.sax.helpers.AttributeListImpl AttributeListImpl}
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* helper class.</p>
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*
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* <p>An attribute list includes only attributes that have been
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* specified or defaulted: #IMPLIED attributes will not be included.</p>
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*
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* <p>There are two ways for the SAX application to obtain information
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* from the AttributeList. First, it can iterate through the entire
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* list:</p>
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*
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* <pre>
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* public void startElement (String name, AttributeList atts) {
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* for (int i = 0; i < atts.getLength(); i++) {
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* String name = atts.getName(i);
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* String type = atts.getType(i);
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* String value = atts.getValue(i);
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* [...]
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* }
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* }
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* </pre>
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*
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* <p>(Note that the result of getLength() will be zero if there
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* are no attributes.)
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*
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* <p>As an alternative, the application can request the value or
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* type of specific attributes:</p>
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*
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* <pre>
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* public void startElement (String name, AttributeList atts) {
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* String identifier = atts.getValue("id");
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* String label = atts.getValue("label");
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* [...]
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* }
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* </pre>
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*
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* @deprecated This interface has been replaced by the SAX2
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* {@link org.xml.sax.Attributes Attributes}
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* interface, which includes Namespace support.
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* @since SAX 1.0
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* @author David Megginson
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* @version 2.0.1 (sax2r2)
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* @see org.xml.sax.DocumentHandler#startElement startElement
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* @see org.xml.sax.helpers.AttributeListImpl AttributeListImpl
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*/
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public interface AttributeList {
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////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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// Iteration methods.
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////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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/**
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* Return the number of attributes in this list.
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*
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* <p>The SAX parser may provide attributes in any
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* arbitrary order, regardless of the order in which they were
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* declared or specified. The number of attributes may be
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* zero.</p>
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*
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* @return The number of attributes in the list.
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*/
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public abstract int getLength ();
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/**
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* Return the name of an attribute in this list (by position).
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*
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* <p>The names must be unique: the SAX parser shall not include the
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* same attribute twice. Attributes without values (those declared
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* #IMPLIED without a value specified in the start tag) will be
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* omitted from the list.</p>
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*
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* <p>If the attribute name has a namespace prefix, the prefix
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* will still be attached.</p>
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*
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* @param i The index of the attribute in the list (starting at 0).
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* @return The name of the indexed attribute, or null
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* if the index is out of range.
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* @see #getLength
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*/
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public abstract String getName (int i);
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/**
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* Return the type of an attribute in the list (by position).
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*
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* <p>The attribute type is one of the strings "CDATA", "ID",
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* "IDREF", "IDREFS", "NMTOKEN", "NMTOKENS", "ENTITY", "ENTITIES",
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* or "NOTATION" (always in upper case).</p>
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*
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* <p>If the parser has not read a declaration for the attribute,
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* or if the parser does not report attribute types, then it must
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* return the value "CDATA" as stated in the XML 1.0 Recommentation
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* (clause 3.3.3, "Attribute-Value Normalization").</p>
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*
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* <p>For an enumerated attribute that is not a notation, the
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* parser will report the type as "NMTOKEN".</p>
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*
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* @param i The index of the attribute in the list (starting at 0).
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* @return The attribute type as a string, or
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* null if the index is out of range.
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* @see #getLength
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* @see #getType(java.lang.String)
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*/
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public abstract String getType (int i);
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/**
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* Return the value of an attribute in the list (by position).
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*
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* <p>If the attribute value is a list of tokens (IDREFS,
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* ENTITIES, or NMTOKENS), the tokens will be concatenated
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* into a single string separated by whitespace.</p>
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*
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* @param i The index of the attribute in the list (starting at 0).
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* @return The attribute value as a string, or
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* null if the index is out of range.
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* @see #getLength
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* @see #getValue(java.lang.String)
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*/
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public abstract String getValue (int i);
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////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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// Lookup methods.
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////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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/**
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* Return the type of an attribute in the list (by name).
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*
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* <p>The return value is the same as the return value for
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* getType(int).</p>
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*
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* <p>If the attribute name has a namespace prefix in the document,
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* the application must include the prefix here.</p>
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*
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* @param name The name of the attribute.
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* @return The attribute type as a string, or null if no
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* such attribute exists.
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* @see #getType(int)
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*/
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public abstract String getType (String name);
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/**
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* Return the value of an attribute in the list (by name).
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* <p>The return value is the same as the return value for
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* getValue(int).</p>
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* <p>If the attribute name has a namespace prefix in the document,
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* the application must include the prefix here.</p>
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* @param name the name of the attribute to return
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* @return The attribute value as a string, or null if
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* no such attribute exists.
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* @see #getValue(int)
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*/
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public abstract String getValue (String name);
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}
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// end of AttributeList.java
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