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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2001 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.apache.xerces.dom3.as;

/**
 * @deprecated
 * The ASObjectList interface provides the abstraction of an 
 * ordered collection of AS nodes, without defining or constraining how this 
 * collection is implemented. ASObjectList objects in the DOM 
 * AS are live.
 * See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load
and Save Specification.
 */
public interface ASObjectList {
    /**
     * The number of ASObjects in the list. The range of valid 
     * child node indices is 0 to length-1 inclusive.
     */
    public int getLength();

    /**
     * Returns the indexth item in the collection. The index 
     * starts at 0. 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 ASObject at the indexth position 
     *   in the ASObjectList, or null if that is 
     *   not a valid index.
     */
    public ASObject item(int index);

}