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/*!
\ingroup qmllint-warnings-and-errors
 
\title Components must have exactly one child
\brief [component-children-count] A component has the wrong number of children.
 
\qmllintwarningcategory component-children-count
 
\section1 Components must have exactly one child
 
\section2 What happened?
A Component has the wrong number of children. It must have exactly one.
 
\section2 Why is that bad?
The root component of the file won't be instantiable and will cause an error at
runtime.
 
\section2 Example
\qml
Component {
    Rectangle {
        width: 50
        height: 50
        color: "red"
    }
    Rectangle {
        width: 50
        height: 50
        color: "blue"
    }
}
\endqml
To fix this warning, make sure the component has exactly one child. If it is
empty, add a child to it. If it contains multiple, either remove the excess
children, or wrap the children into a single top-level child of the component.
\qml
Component {
    Item {
        Rectangle {
            width: 50
            height: 50
            color: "red"
        }
        Rectangle {
            width: 50
            height: 50
            color: "blue"
        }
    }
}
\endqml
*/