org.apache.xml.dtm.ref

Class DTMNodeListBase

Implemented Interfaces:
org.w3c.dom.NodeList
Known Direct Subclasses:
DTMAxisIterNodeList, DTMChildIterNodeList, DTMNodeList

public class DTMNodeListBase
extends Object
implements org.w3c.dom.NodeList

DTMNodeList gives us an implementation of the DOM's NodeList interface wrapped around a DTM Iterator. The author considers this something of an abominations, since NodeList was not intended to be a general purpose "list of nodes" API and is generally considered by the DOM WG to have be a mistake... but I'm told that some of the XPath/XSLT folks say they must have this solution. Please note that this is not necessarily equivlaent to a DOM NodeList operating over the same document. In particular:

State: In progress!!

Constructor Summary

DTMNodeListBase()

Method Summary

int
getLength()
The number of nodes in the list.
Node
item(int index)
Returns the indexth item in the collection.

Constructor Details

DTMNodeListBase

public DTMNodeListBase()

Method Details

getLength

public int getLength()
The number of nodes in the list. The range of valid child node indices is 0 to length-1 inclusive.

item

public Node item(int index)
Returns the indexth item in the collection. If index is greater than or equal to the number of nodes in the list, this returns null.
Parameters:
Returns:
The node at the indexth position in the NodeList, or null if that is not a valid index.

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