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