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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+    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.
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE module PUBLIC
+    "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Check Configuration 1.2//EN"
+    "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/configuration_1_2.dtd">
+
+<!--
+    Checks that can apply to all text file types (not just java)
+ -->
+<module name="Checker">
+  <module name="FileTabCharacter">
+    <property name="eachLine" value="true"/>
+  </module>
+  <module name="RegexpSingleline">
+    <property name="format" value="[ \t]+$"/>
+    <property name="message" value="Trailing whitespace"/>
+  </module>
+  <module name="NewlineAtEndOfFile">
+  </module>
+</module>