org.apache.xerces.dom
Class DeferredAttrImpl

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
      extended by org.apache.xerces.dom.AttrImpl
          extended by org.apache.xerces.dom.DeferredAttrImpl
All Implemented Interfaces:
java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable, DeferredNode, Attr, EventTarget, Node, NodeList, TypeInfo

public final class DeferredAttrImpl
extends AttrImpl
implements DeferredNode

Attribute represents an XML-style attribute of an Element. Typically, the allowable values are controlled by its declaration in the Document Type Definition (DTD) governing this kind of document.

If the attribute has not been explicitly assigned a value, but has been declared in the DTD, it will exist and have that default. Only if neither the document nor the DTD specifies a value will the Attribute really be considered absent and have no value; in that case, querying the attribute will return null.

Attributes may have multiple children that contain their data. (XML allows attributes to contain entity references, and tokenized attribute types such as NMTOKENS may have a child for each token.) For convenience, the Attribute object's getValue() method returns the string version of the attribute's value.

Attributes are not children of the Elements they belong to, in the usual sense, and have no valid Parent reference. However, the spec says they _do_ belong to a specific Element, and an INUSE exception is to be thrown if the user attempts to explicitly share them between elements.

Note that Elements do not permit attributes to appear to be shared (see the INUSE exception), so this object's mutability is officially not an issue.

DeferredAttrImpl inherits from AttrImpl which does not support Namespaces. DeferredAttrNSImpl, which inherits from AttrNSImpl, does.

Since:
PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818.
Version:
$Id: DeferredAttrImpl.java 447266 2006-09-18 05:57:49Z mrglavas $
Author:
Andy Clark, IBM, Arnaud Le Hors, IBM
See Also:
DeferredAttrNSImpl, Serialized Form

Field Summary
 
Fields inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IS_CONTAINED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, ELEMENT_DEFINITION_NODE, TREE_POSITION_ANCESTOR, TREE_POSITION_DESCENDANT, TREE_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, TREE_POSITION_EQUIVALENT, TREE_POSITION_FOLLOWING, TREE_POSITION_PRECEDING, TREE_POSITION_SAME_NODE
 
Fields inherited from interface org.apache.xerces.dom.DeferredNode
TYPE_NODE
 
Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node
ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE
 
Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.TypeInfo
DERIVATION_EXTENSION, DERIVATION_LIST, DERIVATION_RESTRICTION, DERIVATION_UNION
 
Method Summary
 int getNodeIndex()
          Returns the node index.
 
Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.AttrImpl
cloneNode, getChildNodes, getElement, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLength, getName, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerElement, getSchemaTypeInfo, getSpecified, getTypeName, getTypeNamespace, getValue, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDerivedFrom, isEqualNode, isId, item, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setIdAttribute, setNodeValue, setReadOnly, setSpecified, setType, setValue, toString
 
Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
addEventListener, appendChild, compareDocumentPosition, compareTreePosition, dispatchEvent, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getFeature, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getReadOnly, getTextContent, getUserData, getUserData, hasAttributes, isDefaultNamespace, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, needsSyncChildren, removeEventListener, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserData, setUserData
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 
Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node
appendChild, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserData
 

Method Detail

getNodeIndex

public int getNodeIndex()
Returns the node index.

Specified by:
getNodeIndex in interface DeferredNode