| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium, |
| * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de |
| * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All |
| * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software |
| * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the |
| * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even |
| * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR |
| * PURPOSE. |
| * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details. |
| */ |
| |
| package org.w3c.dom; |
| |
| /** |
| * Objects implementing the <code>NamedNodeMap</code> interface are used to |
| * represent collections of nodes that can be accessed by name. Note that |
| * <code>NamedNodeMap</code> does not inherit from <code>NodeList</code>; |
| * <code>NamedNodeMaps</code> are not maintained in any particular order. |
| * Objects contained in an object implementing <code>NamedNodeMap</code> may |
| * also be accessed by an ordinal index, but this is simply to allow |
| * convenient enumeration of the contents of a <code>NamedNodeMap</code>, |
| * and does not imply that the DOM specifies an order to these Nodes. |
| * <p><code>NamedNodeMap</code> objects in the DOM are live. |
| * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification</a>. |
| */ |
| public interface NamedNodeMap { |
| /** |
| * Retrieves a node specified by name. |
| * @param nameThe <code>nodeName</code> of a node to retrieve. |
| * @return A <code>Node</code> (of any type) with the specified |
| * <code>nodeName</code>, or <code>null</code> if it does not identify |
| * any node in this map. |
| */ |
| public Node getNamedItem(String name); |
| |
| /** |
| * Adds a node using its <code>nodeName</code> attribute. If a node with |
| * that name is already present in this map, it is replaced by the new |
| * one. |
| * <br>As the <code>nodeName</code> attribute is used to derive the name |
| * which the node must be stored under, multiple nodes of certain types |
| * (those that have a "special" string value) cannot be stored as the |
| * names would clash. This is seen as preferable to allowing nodes to be |
| * aliased. |
| * @param argA node to store in this map. The node will later be |
| * accessible using the value of its <code>nodeName</code> attribute. |
| * @return If the new <code>Node</code> replaces an existing node the |
| * replaced <code>Node</code> is returned, otherwise <code>null</code> |
| * is returned. |
| * @exception DOMException |
| * WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if <code>arg</code> was created from a |
| * different document than the one that created this map. |
| * <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this map is readonly. |
| * <br>INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR: Raised if <code>arg</code> is an |
| * <code>Attr</code> that is already an attribute of another |
| * <code>Element</code> object. The DOM user must explicitly clone |
| * <code>Attr</code> nodes to re-use them in other elements. |
| */ |
| public Node setNamedItem(Node arg) |
| throws DOMException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Removes a node specified by name. When this map contains the attributes |
| * attached to an element, if the removed attribute is known to have a |
| * default value, an attribute immediately appears containing the |
| * default value as well as the corresponding namespace URI, local name, |
| * and prefix when applicable. |
| * @param nameThe <code>nodeName</code> of the node to remove. |
| * @return The node removed from this map if a node with such a name |
| * exists. |
| * @exception DOMException |
| * NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if there is no node named <code>name</code> in |
| * this map. |
| * <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this map is readonly. |
| */ |
| public Node removeNamedItem(String name) |
| throws DOMException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns the <code>index</code>th item in the map. If <code>index</code> |
| * is greater than or equal to the number of nodes in this map, this |
| * returns <code>null</code>. |
| * @param indexIndex into this map. |
| * @return The node at the <code>index</code>th position in the map, or |
| * <code>null</code> if that is not a valid index. |
| */ |
| public Node item(int index); |
| |
| /** |
| * The number of nodes in this map. The range of valid child node indices |
| * is <code>0</code> to <code>length-1</code> inclusive. |
| */ |
| public int getLength(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Retrieves a node specified by local name and namespace URI. HTML-only |
| * DOM implementations do not need to implement this method. |
| * @param namespaceURIThe namespace URI of the node to retrieve. |
| * @param localNameThe local name of the node to retrieve. |
| * @return A <code>Node</code> (of any type) with the specified local |
| * name and namespace URI, or <code>null</code> if they do not |
| * identify any node in this map. |
| * @since DOM Level 2 |
| */ |
| public Node getNamedItemNS(String namespaceURI, |
| String localName); |
| |
| /** |
| * Adds a node using its <code>namespaceURI</code> and |
| * <code>localName</code>. If a node with that namespace URI and that |
| * local name is already present in this map, it is replaced by the new |
| * one. |
| * <br>HTML-only DOM implementations do not need to implement this method. |
| * @param argA node to store in this map. The node will later be |
| * accessible using the value of its <code>namespaceURI</code> and |
| * <code>localName</code> attributes. |
| * @return If the new <code>Node</code> replaces an existing node the |
| * replaced <code>Node</code> is returned, otherwise <code>null</code> |
| * is returned. |
| * @exception DOMException |
| * WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if <code>arg</code> was created from a |
| * different document than the one that created this map. |
| * <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this map is readonly. |
| * <br>INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR: Raised if <code>arg</code> is an |
| * <code>Attr</code> that is already an attribute of another |
| * <code>Element</code> object. The DOM user must explicitly clone |
| * <code>Attr</code> nodes to re-use them in other elements. |
| * @since DOM Level 2 |
| */ |
| public Node setNamedItemNS(Node arg) |
| throws DOMException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Removes a node specified by local name and namespace URI. A removed |
| * attribute may be known to have a default value when this map contains |
| * the attributes attached to an element, as returned by the attributes |
| * attribute of the <code>Node</code> interface. If so, an attribute |
| * immediately appears containing the default value as well as the |
| * corresponding namespace URI, local name, and prefix when applicable. |
| * <br>HTML-only DOM implementations do not need to implement this method. |
| * @param namespaceURIThe namespace URI of the node to remove. |
| * @param localNameThe local name of the node to remove. |
| * @return The node removed from this map if a node with such a local |
| * name and namespace URI exists. |
| * @exception DOMException |
| * NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if there is no node with the specified |
| * <code>namespaceURI</code> and <code>localName</code> in this map. |
| * <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this map is readonly. |
| * @since DOM Level 2 |
| */ |
| public Node removeNamedItemNS(String namespaceURI, |
| String localName) |
| throws DOMException; |
| |
| } |
