# 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 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 XMLEvent

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

## Method Details

### getName

QName getName()
Returns the QName for this attribute.

Returns:
  the QName of the attribute

### getValue

String getValue()
Gets the normalized value of this attribute.

Returns:
  the normalized value of the 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