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18 /*
19  * $Id: Method.java 468654 2006-10-28 07:09:23Z minchau $
20  */
21 package 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  */
44 public final class Method
45 {
46     /**
47      * A private constructor to prevent the creation of such a class.
48      */
Method()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