"fresh") position and -1 (or indeed
 any out-of-bounds value) requesting the final position.<DT><B>Throws:</B><DD>java.lang.RuntimeException - thrown if this NodeSet is not
 one of the types which supports indexing/counting.</DL>
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item</H3>
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public <A HREF="../../../org/w3c/dom/Node.html">Node</A> <B>item</B>(int&nbsp;index)</PRE>
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<DD>Returns the <code>index</code>th item in the collection. If
 <code>index</code> is greater than or equal to the