An Element Information Item holds the most frequently needed data in an XML document. There is one top-level element, associated with the Document Information Item, and all but a handful of information items are its descendants.
This information item starts with a ContentHandler.startElement() call, and ends with a ContentHandler.endElement() call.
Property |
Callbacks |
Explanation |
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[namespace name] |
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[local name] |
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[prefix] |
ContentHandler.startElement(), qName parameter (when available) |
The QName (namespace-prefixed name) includes any prefix available; for example, a QName xhtml:a uses the prefix xhtml. |
[children] |
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See the sections for each type of information item: Element, Processing Instruction, Unexpanded Entity Ref, Character, Comment. |
[attributes] |
ContentHandler.startElement(), attributes parameter, DeclHandler.attributeDecl() |
When the [namespace attributes] property value is accessible, both groups of attributes are intermixed. Values that are #IMPLIED, but not specified in the document text, are only visible through the attributeDecl() callback. If you need to know about such attributes, record them during DTD processing. |
[namespace attributes] |
ContentHandler.startElement(), attributes parameter (when available) |
If the namespace-prefixes feature flag is true, these attributes are mixed with the [attributes] property. They're the ones with QName values of xmlns, or starting with xmlns:. [28] Otherwise, this data is unavailable. |
[in-scope namespaces] |
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See the section on Namespace Information Items. |
[base URI] |
computed using xml:base |
In the absence of xml:base attributes, this is normally the value that Locator.getSystemId() exposes during the startElement() callback. |
[parent] |
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Applications must keep track of this information item if it is needed. |
Manually associate these with the namespace URI http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/
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