Package com.adobe.xfa

Class Attribute

java.lang.Object

com.adobe.xfa.Attribute

Direct Known Subclasses:

EnumValue, GenericAttribute, ImagingBBoxEnum, Int, Measurement, Rotate, StringAttr

public abstract class Attribute
extends Object

A common base class to represent XML attributes.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Attribute(String qName, String value)	Instantiates an attribute, with the given attribute value.
Attribute(String NS, String localName, String qName, String value)	Instantiates an attribute, with the given attribute parameters.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getAttrValue()	Gets this attribute's value.
String	getLocalName()	Gets this attribute's local name.
String	getName()	Gets this attribute's local name.
String	getNS()	Gets this attribute's namespace.
String	getPrefix()	Gets this attribute's namespace prefix.
String	getQName()	Gets this attribute's qualified name.
boolean	isEmpty()	Determines if this attribute's value is empty (or null).
boolean	isNameSpaceAttr()	Determines if this attribute is a name space attribute.
boolean	isSchemaAttr()	Determine if an attribute is a schema attribute.
boolean	isXSINilAttr()	the URI for xsi has many variants by date e.g.
abstract Attribute	newAttribute(String value)	Create a new attribute, given a new value
abstract Attribute	newAttribute(String NS, String localName, String qName, String value)	Create a new attribute, given all attribute parameters
abstract Attribute	newAttribute(String NS, String localName, String qName, String value, boolean internSymbols)	Create a new attribute, given all attribute parameters
void	normalize()	Normalizes this attribute.
String	toString()	Generates this attribute's value as a string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Attribute

public Attribute(String qName,
                 String value)

Instantiates an attribute, with the given attribute value.

Parameters:

qName - the attribute name.

value - the attribute value.

Attribute

public Attribute(String NS,
                 String localName,
                 String qName,
                 String value)

Instantiates an attribute, with the given attribute parameters.

Parameters:

NS - the namespace of this attribute.

localName - the local name of this attribute.

qName - the qualified name of this attribute.

value - the value of this attribute.

Method Detail

getAttrValue

public final String getAttrValue()

Gets this attribute's value.

Returns:

the attribute value.

getLocalName

public final String getLocalName()

Gets this attribute's local name.

Returns:

The local part of the name (everything after the ":")

getName

public final String getName()

Gets this attribute's local name.

Returns:

Returns the local name.

getNS

public String getNS()

Gets this attribute's namespace.

Returns:

Returns the namespace.

getPrefix

public final String getPrefix()

Gets this attribute's namespace prefix.

Returns:

the attribute namespace prefix.

getQName

public final String getQName()

Gets this attribute's qualified name.

Returns:

the qualified name.

isEmpty

public final boolean isEmpty()

Determines if this attribute's value is empty (or null).

Returns:

true if this attribute's value is empty and false otherwise.

isNameSpaceAttr

public final boolean isNameSpaceAttr()

Determines if this attribute is a name space attribute.

Returns:

true if this is a name space attribute and false otherwise.

isXSINilAttr

public final boolean isXSINilAttr()

the URI for xsi has many variants by date e.g. http://www.w3.org/[this section may vary]/XMLSchema-instance Pre-2001 used the "null" attribute, the 2001 version rename this to "nil" We recognize any combination of nil or null with any XMLSchema-instance namespace URI.

Returns:

true if this attribute represents the xsi:nil attribute, or one of its variants.

isSchemaAttr

public boolean isSchemaAttr()

Determine if an attribute is a schema attribute.

Returns:

true this is a schema attribute.

newAttribute

public abstract Attribute newAttribute(String value)

Create a new attribute, given a new value

Parameters:

value - the string to use to create the new attribute

Returns:

a new attribute

newAttribute

public abstract Attribute newAttribute(String NS,
                                       String localName,
                                       String qName,
                                       String value)

Create a new attribute, given all attribute parameters

Parameters:

NS - the namespace for this attribute

localName - the local name for this attribute

qName - the qualified name for this attribute

value - the string to use to create the new attribute

Returns:

a new attribute

newAttribute

public abstract Attribute newAttribute(String NS,
                                       String localName,
                                       String qName,
                                       String value,
                                       boolean internSymbols)

Create a new attribute, given all attribute parameters

Parameters:

NS - the namespace for this attribute

localName - the local name for this attribute

qName - the qualified name for this attribute

value - the string to use to create the new attribute

internSymbols - indicates whether the symbols in other parameters need to be interned.

Returns:

a new attribute

normalize

public void normalize()

Normalizes this attribute. This base class implementation simply does nothing, other than allow derived classes the opportunity to do something.

toString

public String toString()

Generates this attribute's value as a string.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

the attribute value.

See Also:

Object.toString()