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      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>NameList</code> interface provides the abstraction of an ordered
     17  * collection of parallel pairs of name and namespace values (which could be
     18  * null values), without defining or constraining how this collection is
     19  * implemented. The items in the <code>NameList</code> are accessible via an
     20  * integral 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  * @since DOM Level 3
     23  */
     24 public interface NameList {
     25     /**
     26      *  Returns the <code>index</code>th name item in the collection.
     27      * @param index Index into the collection.
     28      * @return  The name at the <code>index</code>th position in the
     29      *   <code>NameList</code>, or <code>null</code> if there is no name for
     30      *   the specified index or if the index is out of range.
     31      */
     32     public String getName(int index);
     33 
     34     /**
     35      *  Returns the <code>index</code>th namespaceURI item in the collection.
     36      * @param index Index into the collection.
     37      * @return  The namespace URI at the <code>index</code>th position in the
     38      *   <code>NameList</code>, or <code>null</code> if there is no name for
     39      *   the specified index or if the index is out of range.
     40      */
     41     public String getNamespaceURI(int index);
     42 
     43     /**
     44      *  The number of pairs (name and namespaceURI) in the list. The range of
     45      * valid child node indices is 0 to <code>length-1</code> inclusive.
     46      */
     47     public int getLength();
     48 
     49     /**
     50      *  Test if a name is part of this <code>NameList</code>.
     51      * @param str  The name to look for.
     52      * @return  <code>true</code> if the name has been found,
     53      *   <code>false</code> otherwise.
     54      */
     55     public boolean contains(String str);
     56 
     57     /**
     58      *  Test if the pair namespaceURI/name is part of this
     59      * <code>NameList</code>.
     60      * @param namespaceURI  The namespace URI to look for.
     61      * @param name  The name to look for.
     62      * @return  <code>true</code> if the pair namespaceURI/name has been
     63      *   found, <code>false</code> otherwise.
     64      */
     65     public boolean containsNS(String namespaceURI,
     66                               String name);
     67 
     68 }
     69