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#include "nsIXFormsControlBase.idl"

interface nsIDOMNode;
interface nsIDOMElement;
interface nsIXFormsControl;

/**
 * Interface for elements that sets the XPath context of its children.
 */
[uuid(35660a75-86f0-4eaf-9da9-f47e2f5466da)]
interface nsIXFormsContextControl : nsIXFormsControlBase
{
  /**
   * Used by children to retrieve the context of their parent.
   *
   * @param aModelID          The modelID
   * @param aContextNode      The context node
   * @param aContextPosition  The context position
   * @param aContextSize      The context size
   * 
   * @note The actual model ID must be returned. An empty |aModelID| should
   * only be returned if the default model has an id="".
   */
  void getContext(out AString aModelID, out nsIDOMNode aContextNode,
                  out long aContextPosition, out long aContextSize);

  /**
   * Used by parents to set the context for children.
   *
   * @param aContextNode      The context node
   * @param aContextPosition  The context position
   * @param aContextSize      The context size
   */
  void setContext(in nsIDOMNode aContextNode, in long aContextPosition,
                  in long aContextSize);

  /**
   * Each context control maintains an 'aborted bind' list.  This list is
   * used to track xforms controls that this context control contains
   * which have tried to bind but couldn't because this context control
   * wasn't bound yet, either.
   *
   * @param aControl          The XForms control that couldn't bind because
   *                          this context control wasn't ready.
   * @param addControl        If true, aControl is added to the list.  If false
   *                          aControl will be removed from the list and also
   *                          aControl will lose its link to this control.
   */
  void addRemoveAbortedControl(in nsIXFormsControl aControl,
                               in boolean aAddControl);

};