How to get an attribute from an XMLReader

I have some HTML that I'm converting to a Spanned using Html.fromHtml(...), and I have a custom tag that I'm using in it:

<customtag id="1234">

So I've implemented a TagHandler to handle this custom tag, like so:

public void handleTag( boolean opening, String tag, Editable output, XMLReader xmlReader ) {

    if ( tag.equalsIgnoreCase( "customtag" ) ) {

        String id = xmlReader.getProperty( "id" ).toString();
    }
}

In this case I get a SAX exception, as I believe the "id" field is actually an attribute, not a property. However, there isn't a getAttribute() method for XMLReader. So my question is, how do I get the value of the "id" field using this XMLReader? Thanks.

Here is my code to get the private attributes of the xmlReader by reflection:

Field elementField = xmlReader.getClass().getDeclaredField("theNewElement");
elementField.setAccessible(true);
Object element = elementField.get(xmlReader);
Field attsField = element.getClass().getDeclaredField("theAtts");
attsField.setAccessible(true);
Object atts = attsField.get(element);
Field dataField = atts.getClass().getDeclaredField("data");
dataField.setAccessible(true);
String[] data = (String[])dataField.get(atts);
Field lengthField = atts.getClass().getDeclaredField("length");
lengthField.setAccessible(true);
int len = (Integer)lengthField.get(atts);

String myAttributeA = null;
String myAttributeB = null;

for(int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    if("attrA".equals(data[i * 5 + 1])) {
        myAttributeA = data[i * 5 + 4];
    } else if("attrB".equals(data[i * 5 + 1])) {
        myAttributeB = data[i * 5 + 4];
    }
}

Note you could put the values into a map but for my usage that's too much overhead.