org.eclipse.vex.ui/src/org/eclipse/vex/ui/internal/config/IConfigElement.java

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2004, 2008 John Krasnay and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *     John Krasnay - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.vex.ui.internal.config;

/**
 * Represents the XML element for a Vex config item in plugin.xml. Vex-specific replacement for the Eclipse
 * IConfigurationElement class. We need this because we are not supposed to implement IConfigurationElement, and in fact
 * it changed and broke us from Eclipse 3.0 -> 3.1.
 */
public interface IConfigElement {

	/**
	 * Returns the value of the given attribute.
	 *
	 * @param name
	 *            Name of the attribute for which to return a name.
	 * @return
	 */
	public String getAttribute(String name);

	/**
	 * Returns an array of all the attributes defined by this element.
	 */
	public String[] getAttributeNames();

	/**
	 * Returns an array of the children of this element.
	 */
	public IConfigElement[] getChildren();

	/**
	 * Returns an array of the children of this element with the given name.
	 *
	 * @param name
	 *            Name of children to search for.
	 */
	public IConfigElement[] getChildren(String name);

	/**
	 * Returns the name of this element.
	 */
	public String getName();

	/**
	 * Returns the value of this element.
	 */
	public String getValue();
}