question: public boolean isAttributeSpecified ( int attributeHandle ) { int type = getNodeType ( attributeHandle ) ; if ( DTM . ATTRIBUTE_NODE == type ) { Attr attr = ( Attr ) getNode ( attributeHandle ) ; return attr . getSpecified ( ) ; } return false ; }
target:  5. [specified] A flag indicating whether this attribute was actually specified in the start-tag of its element, or was defaulted from the DTD.