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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
   * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
   * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
   * PURPOSE. See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more
   * details.
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  package org.w3c.dom.html;
  
  import org.w3c.dom.Node;
  
  /**
   *  An <code>HTMLCollection</code> is a list of nodes. An individual node may
   * 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 meaning that they are automatically updated when the
   * underlying document is changed.
   * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-DOM-Level-2-20000510'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specification</a>.
   */
  public interface HTMLCollection {
      /**
       *  This attribute specifies the length or  size of the list.
       */
      public 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.
       */
      public 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> .
       */
      public Node namedItem(String name);
  
  }