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package org.xml.sax.ext;

import org.xml.sax.Attributes;

/**

 * SAX2 extension to augment the per-attribute information

 * If an implementation supports this extension, the attributes

 * provided in {@link org.xml.sax.ContentHandler#startElement

 * ContentHandler.startElement() } will implement this interface,

 * and the <em>http://xml.org/sax/features/use-attributes2</em>

 * feature flag will have the value <em>true</em>.

 *

 * <p> XMLReader implementations are not required to support this

 * information, and it is not part of core-only SAX2 distributions.</p>

 *

 * <p>Note that if an attribute was defaulted (<em>!isSpecified()</em>)

 * it will of necessity also have been declared (<em>isDeclared()</em>)

 * in the DTD.

 * Similarly if an attribute's type is anything except CDATA, then it

 * must have been declared.

 * </p>

 *

 * @since 1.5, SAX 2.0 (extensions 1.1 alpha)

 * @author David Brownell

 */

public interface Attributes2 extends Attributes

{

    /**

     * Returns false unless the attribute was declared in the DTD.

     * This helps distinguish two kinds of attributes that SAX reports

     * as CDATA:  ones that were declared (and hence are usually valid),

     * and those that were not (and which are never valid).

     *

     * @param index The attribute index (zero-based).

     * @return true if the attribute was declared in the DTD,

     *          false otherwise.

     * @exception java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException When the

     *            supplied index does not identify an attribute.

     */

    public boolean isDeclared (int index);

    /**

     * Returns false unless the attribute was declared in the DTD.

     * This helps distinguish two kinds of attributes that SAX reports

     * as CDATA:  ones that were declared (and hence are usually valid),

     * and those that were not (and which are never valid).

     *

     * @param qName The XML qualified (prefixed) name.

     * @return true if the attribute was declared in the DTD,

     *          false otherwise.

     * @exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException When the

     *            supplied name does not identify an attribute.

     */

    public boolean isDeclared (String qName);

    /**

     * Returns false unless the attribute was declared in the DTD.

     * This helps distinguish two kinds of attributes that SAX reports

     * as CDATA:  ones that were declared (and hence are usually valid),

     * and those that were not (and which are never valid).

     *

     * <p>Remember that since DTDs do not "understand" namespaces, the

     * namespace URI associated with an attribute may not have come from

     * the DTD.  The declaration will have applied to the attribute's

     * <em>qName</em>.

     *

     * @param uri The Namespace URI, or the empty string if

     *        the name has no Namespace URI.

     * @param localName The attribute's local name.

     * @return true if the attribute was declared in the DTD,

     *          false otherwise.

     * @exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException When the

     *            supplied names do not identify an attribute.

     */

    public boolean isDeclared (String uri, String localName);

    /**

     * Returns true unless the attribute value was provided

     * by DTD defaulting.

     *

     * @param index The attribute index (zero-based).

     * @return true if the value was found in the XML text,

     *          false if the value was provided by DTD defaulting.

     * @exception java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException When the

     *            supplied index does not identify an attribute.

     */

    public boolean isSpecified (int index);

    /**

     * Returns true unless the attribute value was provided

     * by DTD defaulting.

     *

     * <p>Remember that since DTDs do not "understand" namespaces, the

     * namespace URI associated with an attribute may not have come from

     * the DTD.  The declaration will have applied to the attribute's

     * <em>qName</em>.

     *

     * @param uri The Namespace URI, or the empty string if

     *        the name has no Namespace URI.

     * @param localName The attribute's local name.

     * @return true if the value was found in the XML text,

     *          false if the value was provided by DTD defaulting.

     * @exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException When the

     *            supplied names do not identify an attribute.

     */

    public boolean isSpecified (String uri, String localName);

    /**

     * Returns true unless the attribute value was provided

     * by DTD defaulting.

     *

     * @param qName The XML qualified (prefixed) name.

     * @return true if the value was found in the XML text,

     *          false if the value was provided by DTD defaulting.

     * @exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException When the

     *            supplied name does not identify an attribute.

     */

    public boolean isSpecified (String qName);

}