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//
//  Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
//
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

namespace Microsoft.Singularity.Xml
{
    using System;
    //    using System.IO;
    using System.Collections;
    /// <summary>
    /// Summary description for XmlNode.
    /// </summary>
    public class XmlNode
    {
        public XmlNode(string name);

        public int CountNamedChildren(string name);

        public XmlNode GetNestedChild(String childName);

        public XmlNode GetNestedChild(String[] childNames);

        public string! Name
        {
            get;
        }

        public void AddChild(XmlNode node);

        public ArrayList! Children
        {
            get;
        }

        public void AddText(string text);

        public string Text
        {
            get;
        }

        public string this[string attributeName]
        {
            get;
            set;
        }

        //
        // Safe access to attributes:
        //      since the kernel is going to use this object, we should
        //      push the error-checking into the object instead of risking
        //      the kernel forgetting to error check in some obscure method
        //

        public string GetAttribute(string attributeName,
                                   string defaultValue);

        public bool GetAttribute(string attributeName,
                                 bool defaultValue);

        public int GetAttribute(string attributeName,
                                int defaultValue);

        public UIntPtr GetAttribute(string attributeName,
                                    UIntPtr defaultValue);

        public bool HasAttribute(string attributeName);
    }
}