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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ */
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.qetest.trax;
+
+import java.io.FilePermission;
+import java.util.Properties;
+import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
+import javax.xml.transform.Templates;
+import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
+import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
+import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
+import jaxp.library.JAXPBaseTest;
+import static org.apache.qetest.trax.TraxConst.XML_DIR;
+import static org.testng.Assert.*;
+import org.testng.annotations.Test;
+
+/**
+ * Basic API coverage test for the Templates class of TRAX.
+ */
+public class TemplateAPITest extends JAXPBaseTest{
+    /**
+     * TRAX Templates: cover newTransformer(),getOutputProperties() APIs and 
+     * basic functionality.
+     * @throws javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void test() throws TransformerConfigurationException {
+        setPermissions(new FilePermission(XML_DIR + "-", "read"));
+        final String xslFile = XML_DIR + "TransformerAPIParam.xsl";
+        final String outputFormatXSL = XML_DIR + "TransformerAPIOutputFormat.xsl";
+        
+        TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
+        Templates templates1 = factory.newTemplates(new StreamSource(xslFile));
+        
+        // Cover APIs newTransformer(), getOutputProperties()
+        Transformer transformer = templates1.newTransformer();
+        assertNotNull(transformer);
+        Properties outputFormat = templates1.getOutputProperties();
+        assertNotNull(outputFormat);
+        
+        // Check that the local stylesheet.getProperty has default set, cf. 
+        // getOutputProperties javadoc
+        assertEquals(outputFormat.getProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD), "xml");
+        assertNull(outputFormat.get(OutputKeys.METHOD));
+        assertEquals(outputFormat.getProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT), "no");
+        assertNull(outputFormat.get(OutputKeys.INDENT));
+        
+        Templates templates2 
+                = factory.newTemplates(new StreamSource(outputFormatXSL));
+        Properties outputFormat2 = templates2.getOutputProperties();
+        assertNotNull(outputFormat2);
+               
+        // Known outputFormat property name/value from outputFormatXSL.
+        final String OUTPUT_FORMAT_NAME = OutputKeys.CDATA_SECTION_ELEMENTS;
+        final String OUTPUT_FORMAT_VALUE = "cdataHere ";
+
+        // Test known properties
+        outputFormat2.getProperty(OUTPUT_FORMAT_NAME);
+        assertEquals(outputFormat2.getProperty(OUTPUT_FORMAT_NAME), OUTPUT_FORMAT_VALUE);
+        assertEquals(outputFormat2.getProperty("omit-xml-declaration"), "yes");
+    }
+}