Gets the type of the attribute with the given XML qualified name.

Return type: CHARACTER

Applies to: SAX-attributes object handle

Syntax

GET-TYPE-BY-QNAME ( qname )
qname
A CHARACTER expression indicating the XML qualified name of the attribute of interest.

The attribute type is one of the following strings: "CDATA," "ID," "IDREF," "IDREFS," "NMTOKEN," "NMTOKENS," "ENTITY," "ENTITIES," or "NOTATION." These are always uppercase.

Returns the Unknown value (?) if no attribute's XML qualified name matches qname.