Module java.xml
Package javax.xml.stream.events

## Interface Attribute

- All Superinterfaces:
    `XMLEvent`, `XMLStreamConstants`
  All Known Subinterfaces:
    `Namespace`

      public interface Attribute
      extends XMLEvent

  An interface that contains information about an attribute. Attributes are reported as a set of events accessible from a StartElement. Other applications may report Attributes as first-order events, for example as the results of an XPath expression.
  Since:
    1.6
  See Also:
    `StartElement`

- - ### Field Summary

    - ### Fields declared in interface javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants

      `ATTRIBUTE, CDATA, CHARACTERS, COMMENT, DTD, END_DOCUMENT, END_ELEMENT, ENTITY_DECLARATION, ENTITY_REFERENCE, NAMESPACE, NOTATION_DECLARATION, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, SPACE, START_DOCUMENT, START_ELEMENT`

  - ### Method Summary

    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `String` | `getDTDType()` | Gets the type of this attribute, default is the String "CDATA"
    `QName` | `getName()` | Returns the QName for this attribute
    `String` | `getValue()` | Gets the normalized value of this attribute
    `boolean` | `isSpecified()` | A flag indicating whether this attribute was actually specified in the start-tag of its element, or was defaulted from the schema.

    - ### Methods declared in interface javax.xml.stream.events.XMLEvent

      `asCharacters, asEndElement, asStartElement, getEventType, getLocation, getSchemaType, isAttribute, isCharacters, isEndDocument, isEndElement, isEntityReference, isNamespace, isProcessingInstruction, isStartDocument, isStartElement, writeAsEncodedUnicode`

- - ### Method Detail

    - #### getName

          QName getName()

      Returns the QName for this attribute

    - #### getValue

          String getValue()

      Gets the normalized value of this attribute

    - #### getDTDType

          String getDTDType()

      Gets the type of this attribute, default is the String "CDATA"
      Returns:
        the type as a String, default is "CDATA"

    - #### isSpecified

          boolean isSpecified()

      A flag indicating whether this attribute was actually specified in the start-tag of its element, or was defaulted from the schema.
      Returns:
        returns true if this was specified in the start element