1 /*
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3  * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
4  * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
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8  * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
9  * PURPOSE.
10  * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
11  */
12 
13 package org.w3c.dom.html2;
14 
15 import org.w3c.dom.Node;
16 import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
17 
18 /**
19  *  An <code>HTMLOptionsCollection</code> is a list of nodes representing HTML
20  * option element. An individual node may be accessed by either ordinal
21  * index or the node's <code>name</code> or <code>id</code> attributes.
22  * Collections in the HTML DOM are assumed to be live meaning that they are
23  * automatically updated when the underlying document is changed.
24  * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20030109'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification</a>.
25  * @since DOM Level 2
26  */
27 public interface HTMLOptionsCollection {
28     /**
29      *  This attribute specifies the length or size of the list.
30      */
getLength()31     public int getLength();
32     /**
33      *  This attribute specifies the length or size of the list.
34      * @exception DOMException
35      *    NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: if setting the length is not allowed by the
36      *   implementation.
37      */
setLength(int length)38     public void setLength(int length)
39                           throws DOMException;
40 
41     /**
42      *  This method retrieves a node specified by ordinal index. Nodes are
43      * numbered in tree order (depth-first traversal order).
44      * @param index The index of the node to be fetched. The index origin is
45      *   0.
46      * @return The <code>Node</code> at the corresponding position upon
47      *   success. A value of <code>null</code> is returned if the index is
48      *   out of range.
49      */
item(int index)50     public Node item(int index);
51 
52     /**
53      * This method retrieves a <code>Node</code> using a name. It first
54      * searches for a <code>Node</code> with a matching <code>id</code>
55      * attribute. If it doesn't find one, it then searches for a
56      * <code>Node</code> with a matching <code>name</code> attribute, but
57      * only on those elements that are allowed a name attribute. This method
58      * is case insensitive in HTML documents and case sensitive in XHTML
59      * documents.
60      * @param name The name of the <code>Node</code> to be fetched.
61      * @return The <code>Node</code> with a <code>name</code> or
62      *   <code>id</code> attribute whose value corresponds to the specified
63      *   string. Upon failure (e.g., no node with this name exists), returns
64      *   <code>null</code>.
65      */
namedItem(String name)66     public Node namedItem(String name);
67 
68 }
69