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1 /*
2  * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
3  * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
4  * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
5  * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
6  * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the
7  * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
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;
14 
15 // BEGIN android-note
16 // Cleaned up @param tags that seemed to be missing spaces between
17 // the parameter name and the start of the description.
18 // END android-note
19 
20 //BEGIN android-note
21 //Filled some gaps in the documentation and refactored parts of the existing
22 //documentation to make the Doclet happy.
23 //END android-note
24 
25 /**
26  * Objects implementing the <code>NamedNodeMap</code> interface are used to
27  * represent collections of nodes that can be accessed by name. Note that
28  * <code>NamedNodeMap</code> does not inherit from <code>NodeList</code>;
29  * <code>NamedNodeMaps</code> are not maintained in any particular order.
30  * Objects contained in an object implementing <code>NamedNodeMap</code> may
31  * also be accessed by an ordinal index, but this is simply to allow
32  * convenient enumeration of the contents of a <code>NamedNodeMap</code>,
33  * and does not imply that the DOM specifies an order to these Nodes.
34  * <p><code>NamedNodeMap</code> objects in the DOM are live.
35  * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification</a>.
36  */
37 public interface NamedNodeMap {
38     /**
39      * Retrieves a node specified by name.
40      * @param name The <code>nodeName</code> of a node to retrieve.
41      * @return A <code>Node</code> (of any type) with the specified
42      *   <code>nodeName</code>, or <code>null</code> if it does not identify
43      *   any node in this map.
44      */
getNamedItem(String name)45     public Node getNamedItem(String name);
46 
47     /**
48      * Adds a node using its <code>nodeName</code> attribute. If a node with
49      * that name is already present in this map, it is replaced by the new
50      * one.
51      * <br>As the <code>nodeName</code> attribute is used to derive the name
52      * which the node must be stored under, multiple nodes of certain types
53      * (those that have a "special" string value) cannot be stored as the
54      * names would clash. This is seen as preferable to allowing nodes to be
55      * aliased.
56      * @param arg A node to store in this map. The node will later be
57      *   accessible using the value of its <code>nodeName</code> attribute.
58      * @return If the new <code>Node</code> replaces an existing node the
59      *   replaced <code>Node</code> is returned, otherwise <code>null</code>
60      *   is returned.
61      * @exception DOMException
62      *   WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if <code>arg</code> was created from a
63      *   different document than the one that created this map.
64      *   <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this map is readonly.
65      *   <br>INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR: Raised if <code>arg</code> is an
66      *   <code>Attr</code> that is already an attribute of another
67      *   <code>Element</code> object. The DOM user must explicitly clone
68      *   <code>Attr</code> nodes to re-use them in other elements.
69      */
setNamedItem(Node arg)70     public Node setNamedItem(Node arg)
71                              throws DOMException;
72 
73     /**
74      * Removes a node specified by name. When this map contains the attributes
75      * attached to an element, if the removed attribute is known to have a
76      * default value, an attribute immediately appears containing the
77      * default value as well as the corresponding namespace URI, local name,
78      * and prefix when applicable.
79      * @param name The <code>nodeName</code> of the node to remove.
80      * @return The node removed from this map if a node with such a name
81      *   exists.
82      * @exception DOMException
83      *   NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if there is no node named <code>name</code> in
84      *   this map.
85      *   <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this map is readonly.
86      */
removeNamedItem(String name)87     public Node removeNamedItem(String name)
88                                 throws DOMException;
89 
90     /**
91      * Returns the <code>index</code>th item in the map. If <code>index</code>
92      * is greater than or equal to the number of nodes in this map, this
93      * returns <code>null</code>.
94      * @param index Index into this map.
95      * @return The node at the <code>index</code>th position in the map, or
96      *   <code>null</code> if that is not a valid index.
97      */
item(int index)98     public Node item(int index);
99 
100     /**
101      * The number of nodes in this map. The range of valid child node indices
102      * is <code>0</code> to <code>length-1</code> inclusive.
103      *
104      * @return the length of the map.
105      */
getLength()106     public int getLength();
107 
108     /**
109      * Retrieves a node specified by local name and namespace URI. HTML-only
110      * DOM implementations do not need to implement this method.
111      * @param namespaceURI The namespace URI of the node to retrieve.
112      * @param localName The local name of the node to retrieve.
113      * @return A <code>Node</code> (of any type) with the specified local
114      *   name and namespace URI, or <code>null</code> if they do not
115      *   identify any node in this map.
116      * @since DOM Level 2
117      */
getNamedItemNS(String namespaceURI, String localName)118     public Node getNamedItemNS(String namespaceURI,
119                                String localName);
120 
121     /**
122      * Adds a node using its <code>namespaceURI</code> and
123      * <code>localName</code>. If a node with that namespace URI and that
124      * local name is already present in this map, it is replaced by the new
125      * one.
126      * <br>HTML-only DOM implementations do not need to implement this method.
127      * @param arg A node to store in this map. The node will later be
128      *   accessible using the value of its <code>namespaceURI</code> and
129      *   <code>localName</code> attributes.
130      * @return If the new <code>Node</code> replaces an existing node the
131      *   replaced <code>Node</code> is returned, otherwise <code>null</code>
132      *   is returned.
133      * @exception DOMException
134      *   WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if <code>arg</code> was created from a
135      *   different document than the one that created this map.
136      *   <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this map is readonly.
137      *   <br>INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR: Raised if <code>arg</code> is an
138      *   <code>Attr</code> that is already an attribute of another
139      *   <code>Element</code> object. The DOM user must explicitly clone
140      *   <code>Attr</code> nodes to re-use them in other elements.
141      * @since DOM Level 2
142      */
setNamedItemNS(Node arg)143     public Node setNamedItemNS(Node arg)
144                                throws DOMException;
145 
146     /**
147      * Removes a node specified by local name and namespace URI. A removed
148      * attribute may be known to have a default value when this map contains
149      * the attributes attached to an element, as returned by the attributes
150      * attribute of the <code>Node</code> interface. If so, an attribute
151      * immediately appears containing the default value as well as the
152      * corresponding namespace URI, local name, and prefix when applicable.
153      * <br>HTML-only DOM implementations do not need to implement this method.
154      * @param namespaceURI The namespace URI of the node to remove.
155      * @param localName The local name of the node to remove.
156      * @return The node removed from this map if a node with such a local
157      *   name and namespace URI exists.
158      * @exception DOMException
159      *   NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if there is no node with the specified
160      *   <code>namespaceURI</code> and <code>localName</code> in this map.
161      *   <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this map is readonly.
162      * @since DOM Level 2
163      */
removeNamedItemNS(String namespaceURI, String localName)164     public Node removeNamedItemNS(String namespaceURI,
165                                   String localName)
166                                   throws DOMException;
167 
168 }
169