import { type WorkDocumentRepeatingSectionItemProperties, type WorkDocumentRepeatingSectionProperties } from './work-document-repeating-section';
export interface DocxRepeatingSectionPatch {
    startMarker: string;
    endMarker: string;
    properties: WorkDocumentRepeatingSectionProperties;
    items: Array<{
        startMarker: string;
        endMarker: string;
        properties: WorkDocumentRepeatingSectionItemProperties;
    }>;
}
export declare class DocxRepeatingSectionPatchCollector {
    readonly patches: DocxRepeatingSectionPatch[];
    private nextMarker;
    register(properties: WorkDocumentRepeatingSectionProperties, items: readonly WorkDocumentRepeatingSectionItemProperties[]): DocxRepeatingSectionPatch;
}
/** Emits temporary marker paragraphs for a repeating-section HTML block. */
export declare function docxRepeatingSectionParagraphs(element: HTMLElement, docx: typeof import('docx'), collector: DocxRepeatingSectionPatchCollector, itemParagraphs: Array<InstanceType<typeof docx.Paragraph>>): Array<InstanceType<typeof docx.Paragraph>>;
/**
 * Replaces generated repeating-section marker paragraphs with native body-level
 * `w15:repeatingSection` / `w15:repeatingSectionItem` controls.
 */
export declare function patchDocxRepeatingSections(buffer: ArrayBuffer, patches: readonly DocxRepeatingSectionPatch[]): Promise<ArrayBuffer>;