Attribute

All Superinterfaces:

XMLEvent, XMLStreamConstants

All Known Subinterfaces:

Namespace
```
public interface Attribute
extends XMLEvent
```
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.

Since:

1.6

Version:

1.0

See Also:

StartElement

Field Summary
- Fields inherited from interface javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants
  ATTRIBUTE, CDATA, CHARACTERS, COMMENT, DTD, END_DOCUMENT, END_ELEMENT, ENTITY_DECLARATION, ENTITY_REFERENCE, NAMESPACE, NOTATION_DECLARATION, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, SPACE, START_DOCUMENT, START_ELEMENT

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`String`	`getDTDType()`	Gets the type of this attribute, default is the String "CDATA"
`QName`	`getName()`	Returns the QName for this attribute
`String`	`getValue()`	Gets the normalized value of this attribute
`boolean`	`isSpecified()`	A flag indicating whether this attribute was actually specified in the start-tag of its element, or was defaulted from the schema.

Methods inherited from interface javax.xml.stream.events.XMLEvent
asCharacters, asEndElement, asStartElement, getEventType, getLocation, getSchemaType, isAttribute, isCharacters, isEndDocument, isEndElement, isEntityReference, isNamespace, isProcessingInstruction, isStartDocument, isStartElement, writeAsEncodedUnicode

- Method Detail
  - getName
```
QName getName()
```
    Returns the QName for this attribute
  - getValue
```
String getValue()
```
    Gets the normalized value of this attribute
  - getDTDType
```
String getDTDType()
```
    Gets the type of this attribute, default is the String "CDATA"
    
    Returns:
    
    the type as a String, default is "CDATA"
  - isSpecified
```
boolean isSpecified()
```
    A flag indicating whether this attribute was actually specified in the start-tag of its element, or was defaulted from the schema.
    
    Returns:
    
    returns true if this was specified in the start element