gomp-20050608-branch/libjava/classpath/external/w3c_dom/org/w3c/dom/NameList.java

   1 /*
   2  * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,
   3  *
   4  * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for
   5  * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This
   6  * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that
   7  * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
   8  * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
   9  *
  10  * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
  11  */
  12
  13 package org.w3c.dom;
  14
  15 /**
  16  *  The <code>NameList</code> interface provides the abstraction of an ordered
  17  * collection of parallel pairs of name and namespace values (which could be
  18  * null values), without defining or constraining how this collection is
  19  * implemented. The items in the <code>NameList</code> are accessible via an
  20  * integral index, starting from 0.
  21  * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification</a>.
  22  * @since DOM Level 3
  23  */
  24 public interface NameList {
  25     /**
  26      *  Returns the <code>index</code>th name item in the collection.
  27      * @param index Index into the collection.
  28      * @return  The name at the <code>index</code>th position in the
  29      *   <code>NameList</code>, or <code>null</code> if there is no name for
  30      *   the specified index or if the index is out of range.
  31      */
  32     public String getName(int index);
  33
  34     /**
  35      *  Returns the <code>index</code>th namespaceURI item in the collection.
  36      * @param index Index into the collection.
  37      * @return  The namespace URI at the <code>index</code>th position in the
  38      *   <code>NameList</code>, or <code>null</code> if there is no name for
  39      *   the specified index or if the index is out of range.
  40      */
  41     public String getNamespaceURI(int index);
  42
  43     /**
  44      *  The number of pairs (name and namespaceURI) in the list. The range of
  45      * valid child node indices is 0 to <code>length-1</code> inclusive.
  46      */
  47     public int getLength();
  48
  49     /**
  50      *  Test if a name is part of this <code>NameList</code>.
  51      * @param str  The name to look for.
  52      * @return  <code>true</code> if the name has been found,
  53      *   <code>false</code> otherwise.
  54      */
  55     public boolean contains(String str);
  56
  57     /**
  58      *  Test if the pair namespaceURI/name is part of this
  59      * <code>NameList</code>.
  60      * @param namespaceURI  The namespace URI to look for.
  61      * @param name  The name to look for.
  62      * @return  <code>true</code> if the pair namespaceURI/name has been
  63      *   found, <code>false</code> otherwise.
  64      */
  65     public boolean containsNS(String namespaceURI,
  66                               String name);
  67
  68 }