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service HierarchyAccess
Description provides access to a hierarchy of descendant elements. Subnodes are accessed by their name. Values that are direct or indirect descendants of this tree node can be retrieved. Non-value subnodes can be navigated using container interfaces. Other interfaces provide access to information about this node. Changes to values in the subtree can be monitored by event listeners. Elements of this container that are not simple values are similar containers themselves, thus (recursively) forming a hierarchical tree. Implementations of this service usually also implement service HierarchyElement , which concerns the complementary role of being accessible as an element of the hierarchy.

Exported Interfaces
::com::sun::star::container::XNameAccess | Description allows access to immediate children of this node. ::com::sun::star::container::XNameAccess::getByName() returns an`any` holding either a simple value or an interface on another HierarchyAccess if the child is not a simple value.
::com::sun::star::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess | Description allows access to all descendants of this node ::com::sun::star::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess::getByHierarchicalName() returns an`any` holding either a simple value or an interface on another HierarchyAccess if the descendant is not a simple value.
::com::sun::star::container::XContainer | Description allows attaching listeners to this node to monitor changes to immediate child nodes.
::com::sun::star::beans::XExactName | Description provides support for inexact names. Exact names can be obtained for simple or hierarchical names for use in ::com::sun::star::container::XNameAccess , ::com::sun::star::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess , ::com::sun::star::beans::XPropertySet or any other interfaces that allow access to or manipulation of subnodes selected by name or hierarchical name. If an inexact name could be matched to either a simple or a hierachical name, the simple (immediate child) name is preferred.
::com::sun::star::beans::XPropertySetInfo | [ OPTIONAL ] Description provides information about immediate children of this node. [optional] This interface may be missing, if the hierarchy supports no traits that are described by ::com::sun::star::beans::PropertyAttribute values or if the same information is available by other means, e.g. if the implementation supports ::com::sun::star::beans::XPropertySet::getPropertySetInfo() . If a child of this node is an object that implements ::com::sun::star::beans::XProperty , then this implementation returns the same ::com::sun::star::beans::Property for that child as the child itself.
::com::sun::star::beans::XPropertyState | [ OPTIONAL ] Description provides access to the state of child elements of an implementation. [optional] This interface may be missing if the hierarchy (or a hierarchy fragment that contains this implementation as element) does not support default values or if the node does not support accessing the default state of individual children. If elements that are not simple values, but objects themselves, support a default state (as indicated by PropertyAttribute::MAYBEDEFAULT ), they should implement ::com::sun::star::beans::XPropertyWithState , in which case the ::com::sun::star::beans::PropertyState applies to all their children and recursively to all descendants. If an implementation is part of a read-only view of the hierarchy, attempts to change property states will fail.
::com::sun::star::beans::XMultiPropertyStates | [ OPTIONAL ] Description provides access to the states of multiple child elements of an implementation. [optional] This interface may be missing if the hierarchy (or a hierarchy fragment that contains this implementation as element) does not support default values if the node does not support accessing the default state of individual children. If elements that are not simple values, but objects themselves, support a default state (as indicated by PropertyAttribute::MAYBEDEFAULT ), they should implement ::com::sun::star::beans::XPropertyWithState , in which case the ::com::sun::star::beans::PropertyState applies to all their children and recursively to all descendants. If an implementation is part of a read-only view of the hierarchy, attempts to change property states will fail.

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