import { FORMAL_NAMES } from "./formal_names";
type TagName = keyof typeof FORMAL_NAMES;
export type Line = {
    level: number;
    tag: TagName;
    xref_id?: string;
    pointer?: string;
    value?: string;
};
/**
 * Lowest-level API to parse-gedcom: parses a single line
 * of GEDCOM into its constituent tag, level, xref_id,
 * and so on. It's unlikely that external applications would use this API.
 * Instead they will more often use `parse`.
 *
 * @param buf - One line of GEDCOM data as a string
 * @returns a line object.
 */
export declare function tokenize(buf: string): Line;
export {};