getNamedItemname

getNamedItemname is not a standard function in widely used web or programming APIs. The term appears to be a misnomer or a confusion with the getNamedItem method found in the DOM’s NamedNodeMap interface. When people refer to retrieving items by name within a collection, the canonical method is usually getNamedItem(name).

In the DOM, a NamedNodeMap represents a collection of nodes that can be accessed by name, such as the attributes of an Element. The typical method to fetch an item by its name is getNamedItem(name), which returns a Node (often an Attr node) or null if no item with the given name exists. For example, elementAttributes.getNamedItem('class') would retrieve the attribute node named class, if present. There is also getNamedItemNS(namespaceURI, localName) for namespace-aware lookups.

If getNamedItemname were a real API, it would presumably take a single string parameter named name and return the corresponding node or a null value when the named item is not found. However, no standard specification defines a method with that exact name. It is important to distinguish between methods that return a Node object and those that return primitive values; for attributes, one can also use getAttribute(name) to obtain the attribute’s value as a string.

Alternatives and related APIs include setNamedItem, removeNamedItem, and item(index) on NamedNodeMap, as well as Element.getAttribute and Element.getAttributeNS for value-based access. In summary, getNamedItemname does not exist in standard DOM; use getNamedItem(name) or related attribute accessors for name-based retrieval.