1 /* 2 * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium, 3 * 4 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for 5 * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This 6 * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that 7 * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied 8 * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 9 * 10 * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 11 */ 12 13 package org.w3c.dom; 14 15 /** 16 * The <code>NodeList</code> interface provides the abstraction of an ordered 17 * collection of nodes, without defining or constraining how this collection 18 * is implemented. <code>NodeList</code> objects in the DOM are live. 19 * <p>The items in the <code>NodeList</code> are accessible via an integral 20 * index, starting from 0. 21 * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification</a>. 22 */ 23 public interface NodeList { 24 /** 25 * Returns the <code>index</code>th item in the collection. If 26 * <code>index</code> is greater than or equal to the number of nodes in 27 * the list, this returns <code>null</code>. 28 * @param index Index into the collection. 29 * @return The node at the <code>index</code>th position in the 30 * <code>NodeList</code>, or <code>null</code> if that is not a valid 31 * index. 32 */ 33 public Node item(int index); 34 35 /** 36 * The number of nodes in the list. The range of valid child node indices 37 * is 0 to <code>length-1</code> inclusive. 38 */ 39 public int getLength(); 40 41 } 42
