content: /*
   * Copyright (c) 1998 World Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts Institute of
   * Technology, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en
   * Automatique, Keio University).
   * All Rights Reserved. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/
   */
  
  package mf.org.w3c.dom.html;
  
  import mf.org.w3c.dom.Node;
  
  /**
   * An <code>HTMLCollection</code> is a list of nodes. An individual nodemay be
   * accessed by either ordinal index or the node's<code>name</code> or
   * <code>id</code> attributes. Note:Collections in the HTML DOM are assumed
   * to be live meaningthat they are automatically updated when the underlying
   * document ischanged.
   */
  public interface HTMLCollection {
      /**
       * This attribute specifies the length or size of the list.
       */
      int getLength();
  
      /**
       * This method retrieves a node specified by ordinal index. Nodes are
       * numbered in tree order (depth-first traversal order).
       *
       * @param index The index of the node to be fetched. The index origin is 0.
       * @return The <code>Node</code> at the corresponding position upon success.
       * A value of <code>null</code> is returned if the index is out of range.
       */
      Node item(int index);
  
      /**
       * This method retrieves a <code>Node</code> using a name. It first searches
       * for a <code>Node</code> with a matching <code>id</code> attribute. If it
       * doesn't find one, it then searches for a <code>Node</code> with a
       * matching <code>name</code> attribute, but only on those elements that
       * are allowed a name attribute.
       *
       * @param name The name of the <code>Node</code> to be fetched.
       * @return The <code>Node</code> with a <code>name</code> or <code>id</code>
       * attribute whose value corresponds to the specified string. Upon
       * failure (e.g., no node with this name exists), returns
       * <code>null</code>.
       */
      Node namedItem(String name);
  }
  
  