/** An element, or a run of text. Attribute values and text are as written (escaped); `attr` and `textOf` read them. */
export interface SvgNode {
    name: string;
    attrs: Record<string, string>;
    children: (SvgNode | string)[];
    /** Written as `<a/>` rather than `<a></a>`. */
    empty: boolean;
}
/** Text with its entities read: the five of XML and numeric ones. */
export declare function decode(text: string): string;
/** Text made safe for an attribute or a run of text, the way `esc` in format.ts does it. */
export declare const encode: (text: string) => string;
/**
 * Read an SVG string into a tree. Anything that is not the markup this package writes (an unclosed tag, an unquoted attribute) is an error that says where.
 * @example
 * ```ts
 * import { parseSvg } from "@johnmorrisdotca/kyogijo-stadiums/scene";
 * const tree = parseSvg('<svg viewBox="0 0 10 5"><rect x="1" y="1" width="3" height="2"/></svg>');
 * console.log(tree.name, tree.attrs.viewBox, tree.children.length);
 * // svg 0 0 10 5 1
 * ```
 */
export declare function parseSvg(text: string): SvgNode;
/** An SVG tree as text: the string `parseSvg` was given, exactly. */
export declare function writeSvg(node: SvgNode): string;
/** The value of an attribute with its entities read. */
export declare const attr: (node: SvgNode, name: string) => string | undefined;
/** The text inside an element and its elements, with its entities read. */
export declare const textOf: (node: SvgNode) => string;
/** The elements inside an element, in order. */
export declare const elements: (node: SvgNode) => SvgNode[];