how to give xml start tag with attributetes in xmlinputformat hadoop

I want to parse xml file in hadoop. It contains a tag like

article name="..." year="...."

If I give

article 

as my start tag in xmlinputformat start_tag_key it doesn't recognize the article tag since my file contains article tag with attributes. So kindly reply how can i specify start_tag_key in xmlinputformat for the above mentioned article tag.