### Eclipse Workspace Patch 1.0
#P org.eclipse.jface.text
Index: src/org/eclipse/jface/text/rules/WhitespaceRule.java
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RCS file: /cvsroot/eclipse/org.eclipse.jface.text/src/org/eclipse/jface/text/rules/WhitespaceRule.java,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 WhitespaceRule.java
--- src/org/eclipse/jface/text/rules/WhitespaceRule.java	9 May 2007 12:16:05 -0000	1.11
+++ src/org/eclipse/jface/text/rules/WhitespaceRule.java	17 Oct 2008 13:42:42 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2000, 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2008 IBM Corporation and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
  *
  * Contributors:
  *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
+ *     Anton Leherbauer (Wind River Systems) - http://bugs.eclipse.org/
  *******************************************************************************/
 
 package org.eclipse.jface.text.rules;
@@ -27,16 +28,33 @@
 	/** The whitespace detector used by this rule */
 	protected IWhitespaceDetector fDetector;
 
+	/** The token returned for whitespace */
+	private final IToken fWhitespaceToken;
+
 	/**
-	 * Creates a rule which, with the help of an
-	 * whitespace detector, will return a whitespace
-	 * token when a whitespace is detected.
-	 *
+	 * Creates a rule which, with the help of an whitespace detector, will return
+	 * {@link Token#WHITESPACE} when a whitespace is detected.
+	 * 
 	 * @param detector the rule's whitespace detector, may not be <code>null</code>
 	 */
 	public WhitespaceRule(IWhitespaceDetector detector) {
+		this(detector, Token.WHITESPACE);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Creates a rule which, with the help of an whitespace detector, will return the given
+	 * whitespace token when a whitespace is detected.
+	 * 
+	 * @param detector the rule's whitespace detector, may not be <code>null</code>
+	 * @param token the token returned for whitespace, may not be <code>null</code>
+	 * 
+	 * @since 3.5
+	 */
+	public WhitespaceRule(IWhitespaceDetector detector, IToken token) {
 		Assert.isNotNull(detector);
+		Assert.isNotNull(token);
 		fDetector= detector;
+		fWhitespaceToken= token;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -49,7 +67,7 @@
 				c= scanner.read();
 			} while (fDetector.isWhitespace((char) c));
 			scanner.unread();
-			return Token.WHITESPACE;
+			return fWhitespaceToken;
 		}
 
 		scanner.unread();