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| 57 | 13.12.5 The <tt class="class">Attributes</tt> Interface |
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| 61 | <tt class="class">Attributes</tt> objects implement a portion of the mapping |
| 62 | protocol, including the methods <tt class="method">copy()</tt>, <tt class="method">get()</tt>, |
| 63 | <tt class="method">has_key()</tt>, <tt class="method">items()</tt>, <tt class="method">keys()</tt>, and |
| 64 | <tt class="method">values()</tt>. The following methods are also provided: |
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| 68 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4553' xml:id='l2h-4553' class="method">getLength</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
| 69 | <td><var></var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
| 70 | <dd> |
| 71 | Return the number of attributes. |
| 72 | </dl> |
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| 76 | <td><nobr><b><tt id='l2h-4554' xml:id='l2h-4554' class="method">getNames</tt></b>(</nobr></td> |
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| 79 | Return the names of the attributes. |
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| 85 | <td><var>name</var>)</td></tr></table></dt> |
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| 87 | Returns the type of the attribute <var>name</var>, which is normally |
| 88 | <code>'CDATA'</code>. |
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