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NAME

6       XML::DOM::NamedNodeMap - A hash table interface for XML::DOM
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DESCRIPTION

9       Objects implementing the NamedNodeMap interface are used to represent
10       collections of nodes that can be accessed by name. Note that
11       NamedNodeMap does not inherit from NodeList; NamedNodeMaps are not
12       maintained in any particular order. Objects contained in an object
13       implementing NamedNodeMap may also be accessed by an ordinal index, but
14       this is simply to allow convenient enumeration of the contents of a
15       NamedNodeMap, and does not imply that the DOM specifies an order to
16       these Nodes.
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18       Note that in this implementation, the objects added to a NamedNodeMap
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21   METHODS
22       getNamedItem (name)
23           Retrieves a node specified by name.
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25           Return Value: A Node (of any type) with the specified name, or
26           undef if the specified name did not identify any node in the map.
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28       setNamedItem (arg)
29           Adds a node using its nodeName attribute.
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31           As the nodeName attribute is used to derive the name which the node
32           must be stored under, multiple nodes of certain types (those that
33           have a "special" string value) cannot be stored as the names would
34           clash. This is seen as preferable to allowing nodes to be aliased.
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36           Parameters:
37            arg  A node to store in a named node map.
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39           The node will later be accessible using the value of the nodeName
40           attribute of the node. If a node with that name is already present
41           in the map, it is replaced by the new one.
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43           Return Value: If the new Node replaces an existing node with the
44           same name the previously existing Node is returned, otherwise undef
45           is returned.
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47           DOMExceptions:
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49           ·   WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR
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51               Raised if arg was created from a different document than the
52               one that created the NamedNodeMap.
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54           ·   NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR
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56               Raised if this NamedNodeMap is readonly.
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58           ·   INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR
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60               Raised if arg is an Attr that is already an attribute of
61               another Element object.  The DOM user must explicitly clone
62               Attr nodes to re-use them in other elements.
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64       removeNamedItem (name)
65           Removes a node specified by name. If the removed node is an Attr
66           with a default value it is immediately replaced.
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68           Return Value: The node removed from the map or undef if no node
69           with such a name exists.
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71           DOMException:
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73           ·   NOT_FOUND_ERR
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75               Raised if there is no node named name in the map.
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77       item (index)
78           Returns the indexth item in the map. If index is greater than or
79           equal to the number of nodes in the map, this returns undef.
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81           Return Value: The node at the indexth position in the NamedNodeMap,
82           or undef if that is not a valid index.
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84       getLength
85           Returns the number of nodes in the map. The range of valid child
86           node indices is 0 to length-1 inclusive.
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88   Additional methods not in the DOM Spec
89       getValues
90           Returns a NodeList with the nodes contained in the NamedNodeMap.
91           The NodeList is "live", in that it reflects changes made to the
92           NamedNodeMap.
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94           When this method is called in a list context, it returns a regular
95           perl list containing the values. Note that this list is not "live".
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98            @list = $map->getValues;        # returns a perl list
99            $nodelist = $map->getValues;    # returns a NodeList (object ref.)
100            for my $val ($map->getValues)   # iterate over the values
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102       getChildIndex (node)
103           Returns the index of the node in the NodeList as returned by
104           getValues, or -1 if the node is not in the NamedNodeMap.
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106       dispose
107           Removes all circular references in this NamedNodeMap and its
108           descendants so the objects can be claimed for garbage collection.
109           The objects should not be used afterwards.
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