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Xerces2 is the next generation of high performance, fully compliant XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family. This new version of Xerces introduces the Xerces Native Interface (XNI), a complete framework for building parser components and configurations that is extremely modular and easy to program. The Apache Xerces2 parser is the reference implementation of XNI but other parser components, configurations, and parsers can be written using the Xerces Native Interface. For complete design and implementation documents, refer to the XNI Manual. Xerces2 is a fully conforming XML Schema 1.0 processor. A partial experimental implementation of the XML Schema 1.1 Structures and Datatypes Working Drafts (December 2009) and an experimental implementation of the XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators (SCD) Candidate Recommendation (January 2010) are provided for evaluation. For more information, refer to the XML Schema page. Xerces2 also provides a complete implementation of the Document Object Model Level 3 Core and Load/Save W3C Recommendations and provides a complete implementation of the XML Inclusions (XInclude) W3C Recommendation. It also provides support for OASIS XML Catalogs v1.1. Xerces2 is able to parse documents written according to the XML 1.1 Recommendation, except that it does not yet provide an option to enable normalization checking as described in section 2.13 of this specification. It also handles namespaces according to the XML Namespaces 1.1 Recommendation, and will correctly serialize XML 1.1 documents if the DOM level 3 load/save APIs are in use.

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package org.apache.xerces.xs;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Objects implementing the XSNamedMap interface are used to 
 * represent immutable collections of XML Schema components that can be 
 * accessed by name. Note that XSNamedMap does not inherit from 
 * XSObjectList. The XSObjects in 
 * XSNamedMaps are not maintained in any particular order. 
 */
public interface XSNamedMap extends Map {
    /**
     * The number of XSObjects in the XSObjectList. 
     * The range of valid child object indices is 0 to length-1 
     * inclusive. 
     */
    public int getLength();

    /**
     *  Returns the indexth item in the collection or 
     * null if index is greater than or equal to 
     * the number of objects in the list. The index starts at 0. 
     * @param index  index into the collection. 
     * @return  The XSObject at the indexth 
     *   position in the XSObjectList, or null if 
     *   the index specified is not valid. 
     */
    public XSObject item(int index);

    /**
     * Retrieves an XSObject specified by local name and 
     * namespace URI.
     * 
Per XML Namespaces, applications must use the value null as the 
     * namespace parameter for methods if they wish to specify 
     * no namespace.
     * @param namespace The namespace URI of the XSObject to 
     *   retrieve, or null if the XSObject has no 
     *   namespace. 
     * @param localName The local name of the XSObject to 
     *   retrieve.
     * @return A XSObject (of any type) with the specified local 
     *   name and namespace URI, or null if they do not 
     *   identify any object in this map.
     */
    public XSObject itemByName(String namespace, 
                               String localName);

}