Module com.sun.xml.xsom

Package com.sun.xml.xsom

Interface ForeignAttributes

All Superinterfaces:

org.xml.sax.Attributes

All Known Implementing Classes:

ForeignAttributesImpl

public interface ForeignAttributes
extends org.xml.sax.Attributes

Foreign attributes on schema elements.

This is not a schema component as defined in the spec, but this is often useful for a schema processing application.

Author:

Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
ValidationContext	getContext()	Returns context information of the element to which foreign attributes are attached.
org.xml.sax.Locator	getLocator()	Returns the location of the element to which foreign attributes are attached.

Methods inherited from interface org.xml.sax.Attributes

getIndex, getIndex, getLength, getLocalName, getQName, getType, getType, getType, getURI, getValue, getValue, getValue

Method Detail

getContext

ValidationContext getContext()

Returns context information of the element to which foreign attributes are attached.

For example, this can be used to resolve relative references to other resources (by using ValidationContext.getBaseUri()) or to resolve namespace prefixes in the attribute values (by using ValidationContext.resolveNamespacePrefix(String).

Returns:

always non-null.

getLocator

org.xml.sax.Locator getLocator()

Returns the location of the element to which foreign attributes are attached.