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18/*
19 * $Id: Method.java 468654 2006-10-28 07:09:23Z minchau $
20 */
21package org.apache.xml.serializer;
22
23/**
24 * This class defines the constants which are the names of the four default
25 * output methods.
26 * <p>
27 * The default output methods defined are:
28 * <ul>
29 * <li>XML
30 * <li>TEXT
31 * <li>HTML
32 * </ul>
33 * These constants can be used as an argument to the
34 * OutputPropertiesFactory.getDefaultMethodProperties() method to get
35 * the properties to create a serializer.
36 *
37 * This class is a public API.
38 *
39 * @see OutputPropertiesFactory
40 * @see Serializer
41 *
42 * @xsl.usage general
43 */
44public final class Method
45{
46    /**
47     * A private constructor to prevent the creation of such a class.
48     */
49    private Method() {
50
51    }
52
53  /**
54   * The output method type for XML documents: <tt>xml</tt>.
55   */
56  public static final String XML = "xml";
57
58  /**
59   * The output method type for HTML documents: <tt>html</tt>.
60   */
61  public static final String HTML = "html";
62
63  /**
64   * The output method for XHTML documents: <tt>xhtml</tt>.
65   * <p>
66   * This method type is not currently supported.
67   */
68  public static final String XHTML = "xhtml";
69
70  /**
71   * The output method type for text documents: <tt>text</tt>.
72   */
73  public static final String TEXT = "text";
74
75  /**
76   * The "internal" method, just used when no method is
77   * specified in the style sheet, and a serializer of this type wraps either an
78   * XML or HTML type (depending on the first tag in the output being html or
79   * not)
80   */
81  public static final String UNKNOWN = "";
82}
83