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 * Copyright 2004,2005 The Apache Software Foundation.
 *
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 #ifndef AXIS2_OM_CHILD_ELEMENT_ITERATOR_H
 #define AXIS2_OM_CHILD_ELEMENT_ITERATOR_H
 
 /**
 *@file axis2_om_child_element_iterator.h	
 *@brief this is the iterator for om elemnts 
 */
  
#include <axis2_om_node.h>
#include <axis2_om_text.h>
  

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#endif

typedef struct axis2_om_child_element_iterator_ops axis2_om_child_element_iterator_ops_t;
typedef struct axis2_om_child_element_iterator axis2_om_child_element_iterator_t;

/**
 * @defgroup axis2_xml_writer 
 * @ingroup axis2_om_parser
 * @{
 */
 
   /**
    * \brief axis2_om_child_element_iterator ops
    * Encapsulator struct for ops of axis2_om_iterator
    */
    AXIS2_DECLARE_DATA struct axis2_om_child_element_iterator_ops
    {
        axis2_status_t (AXIS2_CALL *free_fn)
                            (axis2_om_child_element_iterator_t *iterator,
                             axis2_env_t **env);
                             
        /**
        * Removes from the underlying collection the last element returned by the
        * iterator (optional op).  This method can be called only once per
        * call to <tt>next</tt>.  The behavior of an iterator is unspecified if
        * the underlying collection is modified while the iteration is in
        * progress in any way other than by calling this method.
        */                                              
        axis2_status_t (AXIS2_CALL *
		remove)(axis2_om_child_element_iterator_t *iterator,
                axis2_env_t **env);
                             
       /**
        * returns true if the iteration has more elements 
        * in otherwords it returns true if the next() would return an element
        * rather than null with an error code set to environments error
        */                             
        axis2_bool_t (AXIS2_CALL *
		has_next)(axis2_om_child_element_iterator_t *iterator,
                  axis2_env_t **env);
    
       /**
        * Returns the next element in the iteration. Returns null if there 
		* is no more elements 
        */
        axis2_om_node_t* (AXIS2_CALL *
		next)(axis2_om_child_element_iterator_t *iterator,
              axis2_env_t **env);
    };
    
    
struct axis2_om_child_element_iterator
{
    axis2_om_child_element_iterator_ops_t *ops;
};    

/** 
 * @param current child
 * @param env environment 
 * return axis2_om_child_element_iterator_t 
 */

AXIS2_DECLARE( axis2_om_child_element_iterator_t *)
axis2_om_child_element_iterator_create(axis2_env_t **env, 
                                       axis2_om_node_t *current_child);
                                  
/************ Macros *********************************************/

#define AXIS2_OM_CHILD_ELEMENT_ITERATOR_FREE(iterator, env) \
        ((iterator)->ops->free_fn(iterator, env))

#define AXIS2_OM_CHILD_ELEMENT_ITERATOR_REMOVE(iterator, env) \
        ((iterator)->ops->remove(iterator, env))
        
#define AXIS2_OM_CHILD_ELEMENT_ITERATOR_HAS_NEXT(iterator, env) \
        ((iterator)->ops->has_next(iterator, env))
        
#define AXIS2_OM_CHILD_ELEMENT_ITERATOR_NEXT(iterator, env) \
        ((iterator)->ops->next(iterator, env))        
        
/** @} */

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif


#endif /* AXIS2_OM_CHILD_ELEMENT_ITERATOR_H */