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/*
* Copyright (c) 2000 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
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*/
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/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 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>. The range of valid child
* node indices is 0 to <code>length-1</code> inclusive.
* @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.
* @return The number of nodes in the list
*/
public int getLength();
}