http://xml.apache.org/commons/components/external/: xml-commons provides an Apache-hosted set of DOM, SAX, and JAXP interfaces for use in other xml-based projects. Our hope is that we can standardize on both a common version and packaging scheme for these critical XML standards interfaces to make the lives of both our developers and users easier. The External Components portion of xml-commons contains interfaces that are defined by external standards organizations. For DOM, that's the W3C; for SAX it's David Megginson and sax.sourceforge.net; for JAXP it's Sun. 

package org.w3c.dom.svg;

public interface SVGTextPathElement extends 
               SVGTextContentElement,
               SVGURIReference {
  // textPath Method Types
  public static final short TEXTPATH_METHODTYPE_UNKNOWN   = 0;
  public static final short TEXTPATH_METHODTYPE_ALIGN     = 1;
  public static final short TEXTPATH_METHODTYPE_STRETCH     = 2;
  // textPath Spacing Types
  public static final short TEXTPATH_SPACINGTYPE_UNKNOWN   = 0;
  public static final short TEXTPATH_SPACINGTYPE_AUTO     = 1;
  public static final short TEXTPATH_SPACINGTYPE_EXACT     = 2;

  public SVGAnimatedLength              getStartOffset( );
  public SVGAnimatedEnumeration getMethod( );
  public SVGAnimatedEnumeration getSpacing( );
}