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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.common.xml.stax.reader;
+
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+/**
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface XmlNode {
+    enum Type {ELEMENT, ATTRIBUTE, CHARACTERS, READER};
+    /**
+     * Returns the children of the receiver as an <code>Iterator</code>.
+     */
+    Iterator<XmlNode> children();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the attributes of the element as an <code>List</code>. Namespace declarations 
+     * should be excluded.
+     * 
+     * @return
+     */
+    List<XmlNode> attributes();
+    
+    /**
+     * Returns a map of prefix to namespace URI
+     * @return
+     */
+    Map<String, String> namespaces();
+
+    /**
+     * Return the QName of the element. If it's for a text node, the name is null.
+     * @return
+     */
+    QName getName();
+
+    /**
+     * Return the text value of the leaf element
+     * @return
+     */
+    <T> T getValue();
+    
+    /**
+     * Return the type of the XML node
+     * @return
+     */
+    Type getType();
+}