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<h3 id="attributes">Attributes</h3>
<p>The <a href="api/ng/type/$compile.directive.Attributes">Attributes</a> object - passed as a parameter in the
<code>link()</code> or <code>compile()</code> functions. It has a variety of uses.</p>
<p>accessing <em>Normalized attribute names:</em>
Directives like &#39;ngBind&#39; can be expressed in many ways: &#39;ng:bind&#39;, <code>data-ng-bind</code>, or &#39;x-ng-bind&#39;.
the attributes object allows for normalized access to
  the attributes.</p>
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