E>Attributes</CODE></A> object passed to the
      <tt>startElement</tt> callback.<DT><B>Returns:</B><DD><tt>true</tt> if the attribute was present before the validator
      processes input. <tt>false</tt> if the attribute was added
      by the validator.<DT><B>Throws:</B><DD>java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException - If the index is invalid.<DD>java.lang.IllegalStateException - If this method is called from other <A HREF="../../../org/xml/sax/ContentHandler.html"><CODE>ContentHandler</CODE></A>
      methods.