8.12.5 The Attributes Interface

Attributes objects implement a portion of the mapping protocol, including the methods copy(), get(), has_key(), items(), keys(), and values(). The following methods are also provided:

getLength( )

Return the number of attributes.

getNames( )

Return the names of the attributes.

getType( name)

Returns the type of the attribute name, which is normally 'CDATA'.

getValue( name)

Return the value of attribute name.