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StartElement.javaAPI DocJava SE 6 API3031Tue Jun 10 00:27:10 BST 2008javax.xml.stream.events

StartElement

public interface StartElement implements XMLEvent
The StartElement interface provides access to information about start elements. A StartElement is reported for each Start Tag in the document.
version
1.0
author
Copyright (c) 2003 by BEA Systems. All Rights Reserved.
since
1.6

Fields Summary
Constructors Summary
Methods Summary
public javax.xml.stream.events.AttributegetAttributeByName(javax.xml.namespace.QName name)
Returns the attribute referred to by this name

param
name the qname of the desired name
return
the attribute corresponding to the name value or null

public java.util.IteratorgetAttributes()
Returns an Iterator of non-namespace declared attributes declared on this START_ELEMENT, returns an empty iterator if there are no attributes. The iterator must contain only implementations of the javax.xml.stream.Attribute interface. Attributes are fundamentally unordered and may not be reported in any order.

return
a readonly Iterator over Attribute interfaces, or an empty iterator

public javax.xml.namespace.QNamegetName()
Get the name of this event

return
the qualified name of this event

public javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContextgetNamespaceContext()
Gets a read-only namespace context. If no context is available this method will return an empty namespace context. The NamespaceContext contains information about all namespaces in scope for this StartElement.

return
the current namespace context

public java.lang.StringgetNamespaceURI(java.lang.String prefix)
Gets the value that the prefix is bound to in the context of this element. Returns null if the prefix is not bound in this context

param
prefix the prefix to lookup
return
the uri bound to the prefix or null

public java.util.IteratorgetNamespaces()
Returns an Iterator of namespaces declared on this element. This Iterator does not contain previously declared namespaces unless they appear on the current START_ELEMENT. Therefore this list may contain redeclared namespaces and duplicate namespace declarations. Use the getNamespaceContext() method to get the current context of namespace declarations.

The iterator must contain only implementations of the javax.xml.stream.Namespace interface.

A Namespace isA Attribute. One can iterate over a list of namespaces as a list of attributes. However this method returns only the list of namespaces declared on this START_ELEMENT and does not include the attributes declared on this START_ELEMENT. Returns an empty iterator if there are no namespaces.

return
a readonly Iterator over Namespace interfaces, or an empty iterator