p.location-badge.
  exported from <a href='../test'>angular2/test</a>
  defined in <a href="https://github.com/angular/angular/tree/2.0.0-alpha.34/modules/angular2/src/debug/debug_element.ts#L9-L138">angular2/src/debug/debug_element.ts (line 9)</a>

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  A DebugElement contains information from the Angular compiler about an
  element and provides access to the corresponding ElementInjector and
  underlying dom Element, as well as a way to query for children.
  
  
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      Get child DebugElements from within the Light DOM.
      





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      Get the root DebugElement children of a component. Returns an empty
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      Return the first descendant TestElement matching the given predicate
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      Return descendant TestElememts matching the given predicate
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