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module com { module sun { module star { module configuration {

/** provides write access to a predefined heterogeneous group of values
 and nested trees as part of a hierarchy.

 <p>This service extends GroupAccess to support
 modifying values.
 </p>
*/
published service GroupUpdate
{
/** is the basic service providing read access to a group element of the
 hierarchy.

 <p>Any child and descendant objects support modifying access as well,
 unless they represent a read-only tree element as indicated by
 com::sun::star::beans::PropertyAttribute::READONLY.
 </p>
*/
    service GroupAccess;

/** allows replacing values.

 <p>This service extends the interface
 com::sun::star::container::XNameAccess supported
 by service GroupAccess to allow changing values.
 This strongly overlaps with functionality available through
 PropertyHierarchy (from GroupAccess), so that
 <code>xGroup.setPropertyValue( aName, aValue )</code> is equivalent to
 <code>xGroup.replaceByName( aName, aValue )</code>.
 </p>

 <p>Changes can be observed by registering a listener with interface
 com::sun::star::beans::XPropertySet or
 com::sun::star::beans::XMultiPropertySet.
 </p>

 <p>Elements of this group may be replaced only if they are of simple type.
 The type returned by
 com::sun::star::container::XElementAccess::getElementType()
 must not be an interface type. Replacing whole subtrees is not supported.
 </p>
*/
    interface com::sun::star::container::XNameReplace;

};


}; }; }; };

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