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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 Iterator
.
*/
Iterator children();
/**
* Returns the attributes of the element as an List
. Namespace declarations
* should be excluded.
*
* @return
*/
List attributes();
/**
* Returns a map of prefix to namespace URI
* @return
*/
Map 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 getValue();
/**
* Return the type of the XML node
* @return
*/
Type getType();
}