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+/*
+    Ousía
+    Copyright (C) 2014  Benjamin Paaßen, Andreas Stöckel
+
+    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+    (at your option) any later version.
+
+    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+    GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+
+/**
+ * @file Whitespace.hpp
+ *
+ * Contains the WhitespaceMode enum used in various places.
+ *
+ * @author Andreas Stöckel (astoecke@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de)
+ */
+
+#ifndef _OUSIA_WHITESPACE_HPP_
+#define _OUSIA_WHITESPACE_HPP_
+
+#include <string>
+#include <utility>
+
+namespace ousia {
+
+/**
+ * Enum specifying the whitespace handling mode of the tokenizer and the
+ * parsers.
+ */
+enum class WhitespaceMode {
+	/**
+     * Preserves all whitespaces as they are found in the source file.
+     */
+	PRESERVE,
+
+	/**
+     * Trims whitespace at the beginning and the end of the found text.
+     */
+	TRIM,
+
+	/**
+     * Whitespaces are trimmed and collapsed, multiple whitespace characters
+     * are replaced by a single space character.
+     */
+	COLLAPSE
+};
+
+}
+
+#endif /* _OUSIA_WHITESPACE_HPP_ */
+