Source for org.xml.sax.ext.Attributes2

   1: // Attributes2.java - extended Attributes
   2: // http://www.saxproject.org
   3: // Public Domain: no warranty.
   4: // $Id: Attributes2.java,v 1.1 2004/12/23 22:38:42 mark Exp $
   5: 
   6: package org.xml.sax.ext;
   7: 
   8: import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
   9: 
  10: 
  11: /**
  12:  * SAX2 extension to augment the per-attribute information
  13:  * provided though {@link Attributes}.
  14:  * If an implementation supports this extension, the attributes
  15:  * provided in {@link org.xml.sax.ContentHandler#startElement
  16:  * ContentHandler.startElement() } will implement this interface,
  17:  * and the <em>http://xml.org/sax/features/use-attributes2</em>
  18:  * feature flag will have the value <em>true</em>.
  19:  *
  20:  * <blockquote>
  21:  * <em>This module, both source code and documentation, is in the
  22:  * Public Domain, and comes with <strong>NO WARRANTY</strong>.</em>
  23:  * </blockquote>
  24:  *
  25:  * <p> XMLReader implementations are not required to support this
  26:  * information, and it is not part of core-only SAX2 distributions.</p>
  27:  *
  28:  * <p>Note that if an attribute was defaulted (<em>!isSpecified()</em>)
  29:  * it will of necessity also have been declared (<em>isDeclared()</em>)
  30:  * in the DTD.
  31:  * Similarly if an attribute's type is anything except CDATA, then it
  32:  * must have been declared.
  33:  * </p>
  34:  *
  35:  * @since SAX 2.0 (extensions 1.1 alpha)
  36:  * @author David Brownell
  37:  * @version TBS
  38:  */
  39: public interface Attributes2 extends Attributes
  40: {
  41:     /**
  42:      * Returns false unless the attribute was declared in the DTD.
  43:      * This helps distinguish two kinds of attributes that SAX reports
  44:      * as CDATA:  ones that were declared (and hence are usually valid),
  45:      * and those that were not (and which are never valid).
  46:      *
  47:      * @param index The attribute index (zero-based).
  48:      * @return true if the attribute was declared in the DTD,
  49:      *        false otherwise.
  50:      * @exception java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException When the
  51:      *            supplied index does not identify an attribute.
  52:      */
  53:     public boolean isDeclared (int index);
  54: 
  55:     /**
  56:      * Returns false unless the attribute was declared in the DTD.
  57:      * This helps distinguish two kinds of attributes that SAX reports
  58:      * as CDATA:  ones that were declared (and hence are usually valid),
  59:      * and those that were not (and which are never valid).
  60:      *
  61:      * @param qName The XML qualified (prefixed) name.
  62:      * @return true if the attribute was declared in the DTD,
  63:      *        false otherwise.
  64:      * @exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException When the
  65:      *            supplied name does not identify an attribute.
  66:      */
  67:     public boolean isDeclared (String qName);
  68: 
  69:     /**
  70:      * Returns false unless the attribute was declared in the DTD.
  71:      * This helps distinguish two kinds of attributes that SAX reports
  72:      * as CDATA:  ones that were declared (and hence are usually valid),
  73:      * and those that were not (and which are never valid).
  74:      *
  75:      * <p>Remember that since DTDs do not "understand" namespaces, the
  76:      * namespace URI associated with an attribute may not have come from
  77:      * the DTD.  The declaration will have applied to the attribute's
  78:      * <em>qName</em>.
  79:      *
  80:      * @param uri The Namespace URI, or the empty string if
  81:      *        the name has no Namespace URI.
  82:      * @param localName The attribute's local name.
  83:      * @return true if the attribute was declared in the DTD,
  84:      *        false otherwise.
  85:      * @exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException When the
  86:      *            supplied names do not identify an attribute.
  87:      */
  88:     public boolean isDeclared (String uri, String localName);
  89: 
  90:     /**
  91:      * Returns true unless the attribute value was provided
  92:      * by DTD defaulting.
  93:      *
  94:      * @param index The attribute index (zero-based).
  95:      * @return true if the value was found in the XML text,
  96:      *        false if the value was provided by DTD defaulting.
  97:      * @exception java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException When the
  98:      *            supplied index does not identify an attribute.
  99:      */
 100:     public boolean isSpecified (int index);
 101: 
 102:     /**
 103:      * Returns true unless the attribute value was provided
 104:      * by DTD defaulting.
 105:      *
 106:      * <p>Remember that since DTDs do not "understand" namespaces, the
 107:      * namespace URI associated with an attribute may not have come from
 108:      * the DTD.  The declaration will have applied to the attribute's
 109:      * <em>qName</em>.
 110:      *
 111:      * @param uri The Namespace URI, or the empty string if
 112:      *        the name has no Namespace URI.
 113:      * @param localName The attribute's local name.
 114:      * @return true if the value was found in the XML text,
 115:      *        false if the value was provided by DTD defaulting.
 116:      * @exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException When the
 117:      *            supplied names do not identify an attribute.
 118:      */
 119:     public boolean isSpecified (String uri, String localName);
 120: 
 121:     /**
 122:      * Returns true unless the attribute value was provided
 123:      * by DTD defaulting.
 124:      *
 125:      * @param qName The XML qualified (prefixed) name.
 126:      * @return true if the value was found in the XML text,
 127:      *        false if the value was provided by DTD defaulting.
 128:      * @exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException When the
 129:      *            supplied name does not identify an attribute.
 130:      */
 131:     public boolean isSpecified (String qName);
 132: }