1 /* 2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 3 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 4 * distributed with this work for additional information 5 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 6 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 7 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 8 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 9 * 10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11 * 12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 13 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 14 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 15 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 16 * limitations under the License. 17 */ 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