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The Method.java Java example source code

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/*
 * $Id: Method.java,v 1.2.4.1 2005/09/15 08:15:19 suresh_emailid Exp $
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package com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer;

/**
 * This class defines the constants which are the names of the four default
 * output methods.
 * <p>
 * Three default output methods are defined: XML, HTML, and TEXT.
 * These constants can be used as an argument to the
 * OutputPropertiesFactory.getDefaultMethodProperties() method to get
 * the properties to create a serializer.
 *
 * This class is a public API.
 *
 * @see OutputPropertiesFactory
 * @see Serializer
 *
 * @xsl.usage general
 */
public final class Method
{
    /**
     * A private constructor to prevent the creation of such a class.
     */
    private Method() {

    }

  /**
   * The output method type for XML documents: <tt>xml.
   */
  public static final String XML = "xml";

  /**
   * The output method type for HTML documents: <tt>html.
   */
  public static final String HTML = "html";

  /**
   * The output method for XHTML documents,
   * this method type is not currently supported: <tt>xhtml.
   */
  public static final String XHTML = "xhtml";

  /**
   * The output method type for text documents: <tt>text.
   */
  public static final String TEXT = "text";

  /**
   * The "internal" method, just used when no method is
   * specified in the style sheet, and a serializer of this type wraps either an
   * XML or HTML type (depending on the first tag in the output being html or
   * not)
   */
  public static final String UNKNOWN = "";
}