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module com {  module sun {  module star {  module xml {  module sax {


/** specifies an element's attributes.

    <p>This interface describes a name-type-value triple which describes a
    single attribute of a tag. Implementors are encouraged to implement the
    com::sun::star::util::XCloneable interface also to
    allow the user to make a copy of the instance.

    </p>
    <p>This interface is a poor IDL version of the Java interface
    <em>org.xml.sax.AttributeList</em>.  For example in getValueByName, it does
    not allow to distinguish a missing value (for which the Java interface
    returns null) from an empty string value.</p>
 */
published interface XAttributeList: com::sun::star::uno::XInterface
{

    /** @returns
                    the number of attributes in this list.
     */
    short getLength();


    /** @returns
                    the name of an attribute in this list (by position).
     */
    string getNameByIndex( [in] short i );


    /** @returns
                    the type of an attribute in the list (by position).
                    Non-validating parsers may return CDATA only.
     */
    string getTypeByIndex( [in] short i );


    /** @returns
                    the type of an attribute in the list (by name).
                    Non-validating parsers may return CDATA only.
     */
    string getTypeByName( [in] string aName );


    /** @returns
                    the value of an attribute in the list (by position).
     */
    string getValueByIndex( [in] short i );


    /** @returns
                    the value of an attribute in the list (by name).
     */
    string getValueByName( [in] string aName );
};


}; }; }; }; };

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