Package com.adobe.xfa

Class Attribute

java.lang.Object
com.adobe.xfa.Attribute
Direct Known Subclasses:
EnumValue, GenericAttribute, ImagingBBoxEnum, Int, Measurement, Rotate, StringAttr
public abstract class Attribute extends Object
A common base class to represent XML attributes.

  • Constructor Details

    • Attribute

      public Attribute(String qName, String value)
      Instantiates an attribute, with the given attribute value.
      Parameters:
      qName - the attribute name.
      value - the attribute value.

    • Attribute

      public Attribute(String NS, String localName, String qName, String value)
      Instantiates an attribute, with the given attribute parameters.
      Parameters:
      NS - the namespace of this attribute.
      localName - the local name of this attribute.
      qName - the qualified name of this attribute.
      value - the value of this attribute.

  • Method Details

    • getAttrValue

      public final String getAttrValue()
      Gets this attribute's value.
      Returns:
      the attribute value.

    • getLocalName

      public final String getLocalName()
      Gets this attribute's local name.
      Returns:
      The local part of the name (everything after the ":")

    • getName

      public final String getName()
      Gets this attribute's local name.
      Returns:
      Returns the local name.

    • getNS

      public String getNS()
      Gets this attribute's namespace.
      Returns:
      Returns the namespace.

    • getPrefix

      public final String getPrefix()
      Gets this attribute's namespace prefix.
      Returns:
      the attribute namespace prefix.

    • getQName

      public final String getQName()
      Gets this attribute's qualified name.
      Returns:
      the qualified name.

    • isEmpty

      public final boolean isEmpty()
      Determines if this attribute's value is empty (or null).
      Returns:
      true if this attribute's value is empty and false otherwise.

    • isNameSpaceAttr

      public final boolean isNameSpaceAttr()
      Determines if this attribute is a name space attribute.
      Returns:
      true if this is a name space attribute and false otherwise.

    • isXSINilAttr

      public final boolean isXSINilAttr()
      the URI for xsi has many variants by date e.g. http://www.w3.org/[this section may vary]/XMLSchema-instance Pre-2001 used the "null" attribute, the 2001 version rename this to "nil" We recognize any combination of nil or null with any XMLSchema-instance namespace URI.
      Returns:
      true if this attribute represents the xsi:nil attribute, or one of its variants.

    • isSchemaAttr

      public boolean isSchemaAttr()
      Determine if an attribute is a schema attribute.
      Returns:
      true this is a schema attribute.

    • newAttribute

      public abstract Attribute newAttribute(String value)
      Create a new attribute, given a new value
      Parameters:
      value - the string to use to create the new attribute
      Returns:
      a new attribute

    • newAttribute

      public abstract Attribute newAttribute(String NS, String localName, String qName, String value)
      Create a new attribute, given all attribute parameters
      Parameters:
      NS - the namespace for this attribute
      localName - the local name for this attribute
      qName - the qualified name for this attribute
      value - the string to use to create the new attribute
      Returns:
      a new attribute

    • newAttribute

      public abstract Attribute newAttribute(String NS, String localName, String qName, String value, boolean internSymbols)
      Create a new attribute, given all attribute parameters
      Parameters:
      NS - the namespace for this attribute
      localName - the local name for this attribute
      qName - the qualified name for this attribute
      value - the string to use to create the new attribute
      internSymbols - indicates whether the symbols in other parameters need to be interned.
      Returns:
      a new attribute

    • normalize

      public void normalize()
      Normalizes this attribute. This base class implementation simply does nothing, other than allow derived classes the opportunity to do something.

    • toString

      public String toString()
      Generates this attribute's value as a string.
      Overrides:
      toString in class Object
      Returns:
      the attribute value.
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