Xerces 3.1.1

## org.apache.xerces.dom
Class AttrImpl

    java.lang.Object
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      +--org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
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            +--org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode
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                  +--org.apache.xerces.dom.AttrImpl

Direct Known Subclasses:
  AttrNSImpl, DeferredAttrImpl

public class AttrImpl
extends ParentNode
implements Attr

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.

Note: The ownerNode attribute is used to store the Element the Attr node is associated with. Attr nodes do not have parent nodes. Besides, the getOwnerElement() method can be used to get the element node this attribute is associated with.

AttrImpl does not support Namespaces. AttrNSImpl, which inherits from it, does.

Since:
  PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818.
Version:
See Also:
  `AttrNSImpl`, Serialized Form

Field Summary
`protected java.lang.String` `name` Attribute name.

Fields inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode
`firstChild, nodeListIndex, nodeListLength, nodeListNode, ownerDocument`

Fields inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
`ELEMENT_DEFINITION_NODE, FIRSTCHILD, flags, IGNORABLEWS, MUTATION_AGGREGATE, MUTATION_ALL, MUTATION_LOCAL, MUTATION_NONE, MUTATIONEVENTS, OWNED, ownerNode, READONLY, SETVALUE, SPECIFIED, SYNCCHILDREN, SYNCDATA`

Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node
`ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE`

Constructor Summary
`protected` `AttrImpl()`
`protected` `AttrImpl(DocumentImpl ownerDocument, java.lang.String name)` Attribute has no public constructor.

Method Summary
`Node` `cloneNode(boolean deep)` Returns a duplicate of this node, i.e., serves as a generic copy constructor for nodes.
`Element` `getElement()` Deprecated. Previous working draft of DOM Level 2. New method is `getOwnerElement()`.
`java.lang.String` `getName()` In Attributes, NodeName is considered a synonym for the attribute's Name
`java.lang.String` `getNodeName()` Returns the attribute name
`short` `getNodeType()` A short integer indicating what type of node this is.
`java.lang.String` `getNodeValue()` In Attribute objects, NodeValue is considered a synonym for Value.
`Element` `getOwnerElement()` Returns the element node that this attribute is associated with, or null if the attribute has not been added to an element.
`boolean` `getSpecified()` The "specified" flag is true if and only if this attribute's value was explicitly specified in the original document.
`java.lang.String` `getValue()` The "string value" of an Attribute is its text representation, which in turn is a concatenation of the string values of its children.
`void` `normalize()` Puts all `Text` nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this `Node`, including attribute nodes, into a "normal" form where only structure (e.g., elements, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references) separates `Text` nodes, i.e., there are neither adjacent `Text` nodes nor empty `Text` nodes.
`void` `setNodeValue(java.lang.String value)` Implicit in the rerouting of getNodeValue to getValue is the need to redefine setNodeValue, for symmetry's sake.
`void` `setSpecified(boolean arg)` NON-DOM, for use by parser
`void` `setValue(java.lang.String value)` The DOM doesn't clearly define what setValue(null) means.
`java.lang.String` `toString()` NON-DOM method for debugging convenience

Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode
`getChildNodes, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLength, getOwnerDocument, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, item, removeChild, replaceChild, setReadOnly, synchronizeChildren, synchronizeChildren`

Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
`addEventListener, appendChild, changed, changes, dispatchEvent, getAttributes, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getReadOnly, getUserData, hasAttributes, isSupported, removeEventListener, setPrefix, setUserData, synchronizeData`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait`

Field Detail

### name

    protected java.lang.String name

  Attribute name.

Constructor Detail

### AttrImpl

    protected AttrImpl(DocumentImpl ownerDocument,
                       java.lang.String name)

  Attribute has no public constructor. Please use the factory method in the Document class.

### AttrImpl

    protected AttrImpl()

Method Detail

### cloneNode

    public Node cloneNode(boolean deep)

  Description copied from interface: Node
  Returns a duplicate of this node, i.e., serves as a generic copy constructor for nodes. The duplicate node has no parent; ( `parentNode` is `null`.).
  Cloning an `Element` copies all attributes and their values, including those generated by the XML processor to represent defaulted attributes, but this method does not copy any text it contains unless it is a deep clone, since the text is contained in a child `Text` node. Cloning an `Attribute` directly, as opposed to be cloned as part of an `Element` cloning operation, returns a specified attribute ( `specified` is `true`). Cloning any other type of node simply returns a copy of this node.
  Note that cloning an immutable subtree results in a mutable copy, but the children of an `EntityReference` clone are readonly . In addition, clones of unspecified `Attr` nodes are specified. And, cloning `Document`, `DocumentType`, `Entity`, and `Notation` nodes is implementation dependent.
  Overrides:
    cloneNode in class ParentNode
  Tags copied from interface: Node
  Parameters:
    `deepIf` - `true`, recursively clone the subtree under the specified node; if `false`, clone only the node itself (and its attributes, if it is an `Element`).
  Returns:
    The duplicate node.

### getNodeType

    public short getNodeType()

  A short integer indicating what type of node this is. The named constants for this value are defined in the org.w3c.dom.Node interface.
  Overrides:
    getNodeType in class NodeImpl

### getNodeName

    public java.lang.String getNodeName()

  Returns the attribute name
  Overrides:
    getNodeName in class NodeImpl

### setNodeValue

    public void setNodeValue(java.lang.String value)
                      throws DOMException

  Implicit in the rerouting of getNodeValue to getValue is the need to redefine setNodeValue, for symmetry's sake. Note that since we're explicitly providing a value, Specified should be set true.... even if that value equals the default.
  Overrides:
    setNodeValue in class NodeImpl
  Tags copied from class: NodeImpl
  Throws:
    DOMException(NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR) -

### getNodeValue

    public java.lang.String getNodeValue()

  In Attribute objects, NodeValue is considered a synonym for Value.
  Overrides:
    getNodeValue in class NodeImpl
  See Also:
    `getValue()`

### getName

    public java.lang.String getName()

  In Attributes, NodeName is considered a synonym for the attribute's Name
  Specified by:
    getName in interface Attr

### setValue

    public void setValue(java.lang.String value)

  The DOM doesn't clearly define what setValue(null) means. I've taken it as "remove all children", which from outside should appear similar to setting it to the empty string.
  Specified by:
    setValue in interface Attr

### getValue

    public java.lang.String getValue()

  The "string value" of an Attribute is its text representation, which in turn is a concatenation of the string values of its children.
  Specified by:
    getValue in interface Attr
  Tags copied from interface: Attr
  Throws:
    DOMException - NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.

### getSpecified

    public boolean getSpecified()

  The "specified" flag is true if and only if this attribute's value was explicitly specified in the original document. Note that the implementation, not the user, is in charge of this property. If the user asserts an Attribute value (even if it ends up having the same value as the default), it is considered a specified attribute. If you really want to revert to the default, delete the attribute from the Element, and the Implementation will re-assert the default (if any) in its place, with the appropriate specified=false setting.
  Specified by:
    getSpecified in interface Attr

### getElement

    public Element getElement()

  Deprecated. Previous working draft of DOM Level 2. New method is `getOwnerElement()`.

  Returns the element node that this attribute is associated with, or null if the attribute has not been added to an element.
  See Also:
    `getOwnerElement()`

### getOwnerElement

    public Element getOwnerElement()

  Returns the element node that this attribute is associated with, or null if the attribute has not been added to an element.
  Specified by:
    getOwnerElement in interface Attr
  Since:
    WD-DOM-Level-2-19990719

### normalize

    public void normalize()

  Description copied from interface: Node
  Puts all `Text` nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this `Node`, including attribute nodes, into a "normal" form where only structure (e.g., elements, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references) separates `Text` nodes, i.e., there are neither adjacent `Text` nodes nor empty `Text` nodes. This can be used to ensure that the DOM view of a document is the same as if it were saved and re-loaded, and is useful when operations (such as XPointer lookups) that depend on a particular document tree structure are to be used.In cases where the document contains `CDATASections`, the normalize operation alone may not be sufficient, since XPointers do not differentiate between `Text` nodes and `CDATASection` nodes.
  Overrides:
    normalize in class ParentNode

### setSpecified

    public void setSpecified(boolean arg)

  NON-DOM, for use by parser

### toString

    public java.lang.String toString()

  NON-DOM method for debugging convenience
  Overrides:
    toString in class NodeImpl

Xerces 3.1.1