SAX: towards a solution

[Tyler Baker]

James Clark wrote:

> /**
>  * An XmlAttributeSet is a set of named attributes each
>  * with a string value.
>  * Both specified and defaulted values are included
>  * and are not distinguished.
>  * Implied attributes are not included.
>  * The XML processor is free to modify the AttributeSet after the
>  * application returns from startElement.
>  * The application can use clone to make a copy of the AttributeSet
>  * which will not be modified by the XML processor.
>  */
>
> public interface XmlAttributeSet extends Cloneable {
>   /**
>    * Return the value of the attribute with this name, or null is the
>    * set does not include an attribute.
>    */
>   String get(String name);
>
>   /**
>    * Return the number of attributes in the set.
>    */
>   int getSize();
>
>   /**
>    * Get the name of the i-th attribute, where i is greater than or
>    * equal to 0 and less than the number of attributes in the set.
>    * The order of the attributes is not defined.
>    */
>   String getName(int i);
>
>   /**
>    * Get the value of the i-th attribute, where i is greater than or
>    * equal to 0 and less than the number of attributes in the set.
>    */
>   String getValue(int i);
> }
>
> You could use an Iterator or Enumeration instead of
> getSize/getName/getValue, but I think it would probably be more
> complicated and less efficient.
>
> James

For those looking at an OMG IDL language independent solution this might work...

module XMLParser {
  interface XMLAttributeSet {
    string get(in string name);

    long getSize();

    string getValue(in int i);
  };
};

CORBA 2.0 BTW will be a standard part of the JDK 1.2.

Tyler


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