--- src/com/bea/xml/stream/AttributeBase.java
+++ src/com/bea/xml/stream/AttributeBase.java
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
   public boolean isNamespaceDeclaration() { return false; }
   public String getLocalName() { return name.getLocalPart(); }
   public String getValue() { return value; }
-  public String getDTDType() { return "CDATA"; }
+  public javax.xml.namespace.QName getDTDType() { return new javax.xml.namespace.QName("CDATA"); }
   public String getNamespaceURI() { return name.getNamespaceURI();}
   public void setNamespaceURI(String uri) { name = new QName(uri,name.getLocalPart()); }