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/*
* 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 org.w3c.dom;
/**
* Objects implementing the <code>NamedNodeMap</code> interface are used to
* represent collections of nodes that can be accessed by name. Note that
* <code>NamedNodeMap</code> does not inherit from <code>NodeList</code>;
* <code>NamedNodeMap</code>s are not maintained in any particular order.
* Objects contained in an object implementing <code>NamedNodeMap</code> may
* also be accessed by an ordinal index, but this is simply to allow
* convenient enumeration of the contents of a <code>NamedNodeMap</code>, and
* does not imply that the DOM specifies an order to these Nodes.
*/
public interface NamedNodeMap {
/**
* Retrieves a node specified by name.
* @param name Name of a node to retrieve.
* @return A <code>Node</code> (of any type) with the specified name, or
* <code>null</code> if the specified name did not identify any node in
* the map.
*/
public Node getNamedItem(String name);
/**
* Adds a node using its <code>nodeName</code> attribute.
* <br>As the <code>nodeName</code> attribute is used to derive the name
* which the node must be stored under, multiple nodes of certain types
* (those that have a "special" string value) cannot be stored as the names
* would clash. This is seen as preferable to allowing nodes to be aliased.
* @param arg A node to store in a named node map. The node will later be
* accessible using the value of the <code>nodeName</code> attribute of
* the node. If a node with that name is already present in the map, it
* is replaced by the new one.
* @return If the new <code>Node</code> replaces an existing node with the
* same name the previously existing <code>Node</code> is returned,
* otherwise <code>null</code> is returned.
* @exception DOMException
* WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if <code>arg</code> was created from a
* different document than the one that created the
* <code>NamedNodeMap</code>.
* <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this
* <code>NamedNodeMap</code> is readonly.
* <br>INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR: Raised if <code>arg</code> is an
* <code>Attr</code> that is already an attribute of another
* <code>Element</code> object. The DOM user must explicitly clone
* <code>Attr</code> nodes to re-use them in other elements.
*/
public Node setNamedItem(Node arg)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Removes a node specified by name. If the removed node is an
* <code>Attr</code> with a default value it is immediately replaced.
* @param name The name of a node to remove.
* @return The node removed from the map or <code>null</code> if no node
* with such a name exists.
* @exception DOMException
* NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if there is no node named <code>name</code> in
* the map.
*/
public Node removeNamedItem(String name)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Returns the <code>index</code>th item in the map. If <code>index</code>
* is greater than or equal to the number of nodes in the map, this returns
* <code>null</code>.
* @param index Index into the map.
* @return The node at the <code>index</code>th position in the
* <code>NamedNodeMap</code>, or <code>null</code> if that is not a valid
* index.
*/
public Node item(int index);
/**
* The number of nodes in the map. The range of valid child node indices is
* 0 to <code>length-1</code> inclusive.
*/
public int getLength();
}
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