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A slightly adapted version of Xerces 2.11.0 to allow the XMLStringBuffer responsible for XML attribute scanning to start larger and thus avoid extended appending times. The initial buffer size is controlled by settting the system property julielab.xerces.attributebuffersize (also available as constant XMLScanner#ATTRIBUTE_BUFFER_SIZE).

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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();

}