001/*
002 * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
003 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
004 * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
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009 * PURPOSE.
010 * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
011 */
012
013package org.w3c.dom.css;
014
015/**
016 *  The <code>CSSRuleList</code> interface provides the abstraction of an 
017 * ordered collection of CSS rules. 
018 * <p> The items in the <code>CSSRuleList</code> are accessible via an 
019 * integral index, starting from 0. 
020 * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Style-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Style Specification</a>.
021 * @since DOM Level 2
022 */
023public interface CSSRuleList {
024    /**
025     *  The number of <code>CSSRules</code> in the list. The range of valid 
026     * child rule indices is <code>0</code> to <code>length-1</code> 
027     * inclusive. 
028     */
029    public int getLength();
030
031    /**
032     *  Used to retrieve a CSS rule by ordinal index. The order in this 
033     * collection represents the order of the rules in the CSS style sheet. 
034     * If index is greater than or equal to the number of rules in the list, 
035     * this returns <code>null</code>. 
036     * @param index Index into the collection
037     * @return The style rule at the <code>index</code> position in the 
038     *   <code>CSSRuleList</code>, or <code>null</code> if that is not a 
039     *   valid index. 
040     */
041    public CSSRule item(int index);
042
043}