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/*
* 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 NodeList interface provides the abstraction of an ordered
* collection of nodes, without defining or constraining how this collection
* is implemented. NodeList objects in the DOM are live.
* The items in the NodeList are accessible via an integral
* index, starting from 0.
*
See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification.
*/
public interface NodeList {
/**
* Returns the indexth item in the collection. If
* index is greater than or equal to the number of nodes in
* the list, this returns null.
* @param index Index into the collection.
* @return The node at the indexth position in the
* NodeList, or null 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 length-1 inclusive.
*/
public int getLength();
}