| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium, |
| * |
| * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for |
| * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This |
| * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] 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. |
| * |
| * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 |
| */ |
| |
| package org.w3c.dom; |
| |
| /** |
| * The <code>NodeList</code> interface provides the abstraction of an ordered |
| * collection of nodes, without defining or constraining how this collection |
| * is implemented. <code>NodeList</code> objects in the DOM are live. |
| * <p>The items in the <code>NodeList</code> are accessible via an integral |
| * index, starting from 0. |
| * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification</a>. |
| */ |
| public interface NodeList { |
| /** |
| * Returns the <code>index</code>th item in the collection. If |
| * <code>index</code> is greater than or equal to the number of nodes in |
| * the list, this returns <code>null</code>. |
| * @param index Index into the collection. |
| * @return The node at the <code>index</code>th position in the |
| * <code>NodeList</code>, or <code>null</code> if that is not a valid |
| * index. |
| */ |
| public Node item(int index); |
| |
| /** |
| * The number of nodes in the list. The range of valid child node indices |
| * is 0 to <code>length-1</code> inclusive. |
| */ |
| public int getLength(); |
| |
| } |
