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Writing Your Own RTF Converter

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An article on how to write a custom RTF parser and converter.
// -- FILE ------------------------------------------------------------------
// name       : IRtfGroup.cs
// project    : RTF Framelet
// created    : Leon Poyyayil - 2008.05.19
// language   : c#
// environment: .NET 2.0
// copyright  : (c) 2004-2010 by Itenso GmbH, Switzerland
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
using System;

namespace Itenso.Rtf
{

	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	public interface IRtfGroup : IRtfElement
	{

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		IRtfElementCollection Contents { get; }

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Returns the name of the first element if it is a tag, null otherwise.
		/// </summary>
		string Destination { get; }

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Determines whether the first element is a '\*' tag.
		/// </summary>
		bool IsExtensionDestination { get; }

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Searches for the first child group which has a tag with the given name
		/// as its first child, e.g. the given destination.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="destination">the name of the start tag of the group to search</param>
		/// <returns>the first matching group or null if nothing found</returns>
		/// <exception cref="ArgumentNullException">in case of a null argument</exception>
		IRtfGroup SelectChildGroupWithDestination( string destination );

	} // interface IRtfGroup

} // namespace Itenso.Rtf
// -- EOF -------------------------------------------------------------------

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