extracting values of individual node elements and verifying them?

Hi all ,

Following is an extract from my JSP page.:
< input type="text" name="startDate" id="datepicker" class="text" >
My requirement is to extract the type=text and verify it actually is text for the name=startDate.
something like
for name=startDate , assert equal that type=text. Please can someone help me with this.

Use

List text = ...Element.findElements(By....
Then iterate each element and do your checking