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#ifndef __com_sun_star_i18n_XExtendedTextConversion_idl__
#define __com_sun_star_i18n_XExtendedTextConversion_idl__

#include <com/sun/star/i18n/XTextConversion.idl>

//=============================================================================

module com { module sun { module star { module i18n {

//=============================================================================


/** 
    This interface provides Text Conversion service.

    <p> It is derived from
    <type scope="::com::sun::star::i18n">XTextConversion</type> and provides
    a new conversion function containing position map (offset) between original
    and conveted string. </p>

	 @since OOo 2.0
 */
published interface XExtendedTextConversion : ::com::sun::star::i18n::XTextConversion
{
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    /**
        The functionality of this method is same as 
        <member scope="::com::sun::star::i18n">XTextConversion::getConversion()</member>,
        except an additional output parameter rOffset.

        @param rOffset
            To find the grapheme of input string corresponding to the
            grapheme of output string, rOffset provides the offset array
            whose index is the offset of output string, the element
            containing the position within the input string.
            When the graphemes of input and output strings are simple 
            one to one mapping, to improve the performance, returned 
            rOffset will be a zero length array.
     */
	string getConversionWithOffset(
            [in] string aText, 
            [in] long nStartPos,
            [in] long nLength,
            [in] ::com::sun::star::lang::Locale aLocale,
            [in] short nTextConversionType,
            [in] long nTextConversionOptions,
            [out] sequence <long> rOffset )
        raises( com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException, 
                com::sun::star::lang::NoSupportException );
};

//=============================================================================
}; }; }; };

#endif