| /* |
| * 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.html; |
| |
| import org.w3c.dom.Node; |
| |
| /** |
| * An <code>HTMLCollection</code> is a list of nodes. An individual node may |
| * be accessed by either ordinal index or the node's<code>name</code> or |
| * <code>id</code> attributes. Note: Collections in the HTML DOM are assumed |
| * to be live meaning that they are automatically updated when the |
| * underlying document is changed. |
| */ |
| public interface HTMLCollection { |
| /** |
| * This attribute specifies the length or size of the list. |
| */ |
| public int getLength(); |
| |
| /** |
| * This method retrieves a node specified by ordinal index. Nodes are |
| * numbered in tree order (depth-first traversal order). |
| * @param index The index of the node to be fetched. The index origin is |
| * 0. |
| * @return The <code>Node</code> at the corresponding position upon |
| * success. A value of <code>null</code> is returned if the index is |
| * out of range. |
| */ |
| public Node item(int index); |
| |
| /** |
| * This method retrieves a <code>Node</code> using a name. It first |
| * searches for a <code>Node</code> with a matching <code>id</code> |
| * attribute. If it doesn't find one, it then searches for a |
| * <code>Node</code> with a matching <code>name</code> attribute, but |
| * only on those elements that are allowed a name attribute. |
| * @param name The name of the <code>Node</code> to be fetched. |
| * @return The <code>Node</code> with a <code>name</code> or |
| * <code>id</code> attribute whose value corresponds to the specified |
| * string. Upon failure (e.g., no node with this name exists), returns |
| * <code>null</code> . |
| */ |
| public Node namedItem(String name); |
| |
| } |
| |