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package org.netbeans.editor;
/**
* Token category enables dividing the tokens into groups.
* Each token by default can be contained in zero or one group.
* If a coloring for the token can't be found and it has non-null
* token-group then the coloring for the group is attempted.
*
* @author Miloslav Metelka
* @version 1.00
*/
public interface TokenCategory {
/** Get the name of the category. */
public String getName();
/** Get the optional numeric identification of this token-category. It can help
* to use the category in switch-case statements. It should default to a zero
* if no numeric-id should be used.
*/
public int getNumericID();
}