jaxp/src/org/w3c/dom/html/HTMLCollection.java
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    41 
       
    42 package org.w3c.dom.html;
       
    43 
       
    44 import org.w3c.dom.Node;
       
    45 
       
    46 /**
       
    47  *  An <code>HTMLCollection</code> is a list of nodes. An individual node may
       
    48  * be accessed by either ordinal index or the node's<code>name</code> or
       
    49  * <code>id</code> attributes.  Note: Collections in the HTML DOM are assumed
       
    50  * to be  live meaning that they are automatically updated when the
       
    51  * underlying document is changed.
       
    52  * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-DOM-Level-2-20000510'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specification</a>.
       
    53  */
       
    54 public interface HTMLCollection {
       
    55     /**
       
    56      *  This attribute specifies the length or  size of the list.
       
    57      */
       
    58     public int getLength();
       
    59 
       
    60     /**
       
    61      *  This method retrieves a node specified by ordinal index. Nodes are
       
    62      * numbered in tree order (depth-first traversal order).
       
    63      * @param index  The index of the node to be fetched. The index origin is
       
    64      *   0.
       
    65      * @return  The <code>Node</code> at the corresponding position upon
       
    66      *   success. A value of <code>null</code> is returned if the index is
       
    67      *   out of range.
       
    68      */
       
    69     public Node item(int index);
       
    70 
       
    71     /**
       
    72      *  This method retrieves a <code>Node</code> using a name. It first
       
    73      * searches for a <code>Node</code> with a matching <code>id</code>
       
    74      * attribute. If it doesn't find one, it then searches for a
       
    75      * <code>Node</code> with a matching <code>name</code> attribute, but
       
    76      * only on those elements that are allowed a name attribute.
       
    77      * @param name  The name of the <code>Node</code> to be fetched.
       
    78      * @return  The <code>Node</code> with a <code>name</code> or
       
    79      *   <code>id</code> attribute whose value corresponds to the specified
       
    80      *   string. Upon failure (e.g., no node with this name exists), returns
       
    81      *   <code>null</code> .
       
    82      */
       
    83     public Node namedItem(String name);
       
    84 
       
    85 }