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		<title>Layouts</title>
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		<section name="Layouts">
		
			<p>Layouts are components responsible for transforming a logging event into a string.</p>
			
			<p>More often than not, users wish to customize not only the output destination but also the output format. This is 
  accomplished by associating a layout with an appender. All messages logged by that appender will use the given layout.</p>
			
			<subsection name="Layout reference" id="Layout_reference">
				
				<p>The following layout classes are available:</p>
			
				<table>
					<thead>
						<tr>
							<th>Name</th>
							<th>Description</th>
						</tr>
					</thead>
					<tbody>
						<tr>
							<td><a href="layouts/html.html">LoggerLayoutHTML</a></td>
							<td> Outputs events in a HTML table.</td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td><a href="layouts/pattern.html">LoggerLayoutPattern</a></td>
							<td>A flexible layout configurable via a pattern string.</td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td><a href="layouts/simple.html">LoggerLayoutSimple</a></td>
							<td>A simple, non configurable layout.</td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td><a href="layouts/serialized.html">LoggerLayoutSerialized</a></td>
							<td>Outputs serialized objects.</td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td><a href="layouts/ttcc.html">LoggerLayoutTTCC</a></td>
							<td>Consists of Time, Thread, Category and nested diagnostic Context.</td>
						</tr>
						<tr>
							<td><a href="layouts/xml.html">LoggerLayoutXml</a></td>
							<td>Outputs events as an XML document.</td>
						</tr>
					</tbody>
				</table>
			</subsection>
		</section>
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