On Wednesday 12 December 2001 03:37 pm, you wrote:
> I can imagine lots of cases where you would need to verify if an
> attribute exists because you may want to do something different if it
> does than if it does not.

String value = configuration.getAttribute("attr", null);

if (value == null) {
        //there was no attribute
} else if ("".equals(value)) {
        //exists but empty
} else {
        //exists and non-empty
}

-pete

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