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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</tt>.

   */

  public static final String XML = "xml";

  /**

   * The output method type for HTML documents: <tt>html</tt>.

   */

  public static final String HTML = "html";

  /**

   * The output method for XHTML documents,

   * this method type is not currently supported: <tt>xhtml</tt>.

   */

  public static final String XHTML = "xhtml";

  /**

   * The output method type for text documents: <tt>text</tt>.

   */

  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 = "";

}