public interface LSSerializer
LSSerializer provides an API for serializing (writing) a
 DOM document out into XML. The XML data is written to a string or an
 output stream. Any changes or fixups made during the serialization affect
 only the serialized data. The Document object and its
 children are never altered by the serialization operation.
  During serialization of XML data, namespace fixup is done as defined in [DOM Level 3 Core]
 , Appendix B. [DOM Level 2 Core]
  allows empty strings as a real namespace URI. If the
 namespaceURI of a Node is empty string, the
 serialization will treat them as null, ignoring the prefix
 if any.
 
 LSSerializer accepts any node type for serialization. For
 nodes of type Document or Entity, well-formed
 XML will be created when possible (well-formedness is guaranteed if the
 document or entity comes from a parse operation and is unchanged since it
 was created). The serialized output for these node types is either as a
 XML document or an External XML Entity, respectively, and is acceptable
 input for an XML parser. For all other types of nodes the serialized form
 is implementation dependent.
 
Within a Document, DocumentFragment, or
 Entity being serialized, Nodes are processed as
 follows
 
Document nodes are written, including the XML
 declaration (unless the parameter "xml-declaration" is set to
 false) and a DTD subset, if one exists in the DOM. Writing a
 Document node serializes the entire document.
 Entity nodes, when written directly by
 LSSerializer.write, outputs the entity expansion but no
 namespace fixup is done. The resulting output will be valid as an
 external entity.
 true, EntityReference nodes are
 serialized as an entity reference of the form "
 &entityName;" in the output. Child nodes (the expansion)
 of the entity reference are ignored. If the parameter "
 entities" is set to false, only the children of the entity reference
 are serialized. EntityReference nodes with no children (no
 corresponding Entity node or the corresponding
 Entity nodes have no children) are always serialized.
 CDATAsections containing content characters that cannot be
 represented in the specified output encoding are handled according to the
 "
 split-cdata-sections" parameter.  If the parameter is set to true,
 CDATAsections are split, and the unrepresentable characters
 are serialized as numeric character references in ordinary content. The
 exact position and number of splits is not specified.  If the parameter
 is set to false, unrepresentable characters in a
 CDATAsection are reported as
 "wf-invalid-character" errors if the parameter "
 well-formed" is set to true. The error is not recoverable - there is no
 mechanism for supplying alternative characters and continuing with the
 serialization.
 DocumentFragment nodes are serialized by
 serializing the children of the document fragment in the order they
 appear in the document fragment.
 Note:  The serialization of a Node does not always
 generate a well-formed XML document, i.e. a LSParser might
 throw fatal errors when parsing the resulting serialization.
 
Within the character data of a document (outside of markup), any characters that cannot be represented directly are replaced with character references. Occurrences of '<' and '&' are replaced by the predefined entities < and &. The other predefined entities (>, ', and ") might not be used, except where needed (e.g. using > in cases such as ']]>'). Any characters that cannot be represented directly in the output character encoding are serialized as numeric character references (and since character encoding standards commonly use hexadecimal representations of characters, using the hexadecimal representation when serializing character references is encouraged).
To allow attribute values to contain both single and double quotes, the apostrophe or single-quote character (') may be represented as "'", and the double-quote character (") as """. New line characters and other characters that cannot be represented directly in attribute values in the output character encoding are serialized as a numeric character reference.
 Within markup, but outside of attributes, any occurrence of a character
 that cannot be represented in the output character encoding is reported
 as a DOMError fatal error. An example would be serializing
 the element <LaCaņada/> with encoding="us-ascii".
 This will result with a generation of a DOMError
 "wf-invalid-character-in-node-name" (as proposed in "
 well-formed").
 
 When requested by setting the parameter "
 normalize-characters" on LSSerializer to true, character normalization is
 performed according to the definition of fully
 normalized characters included in appendix E of [XML 1.1] on all
 data to be serialized, both markup and character data. The character
 normalization process affects only the data as it is being written; it
 does not alter the DOM's view of the document after serialization has
 completed.
 
 Implementations are required to support the encodings "UTF-8",
 "UTF-16", "UTF-16BE", and "UTF-16LE" to guarantee that data is
 serializable in all encodings that are required to be supported by all
 XML parsers. When the encoding is UTF-8, whether or not a byte order mark
 is serialized, or if the output is big-endian or little-endian, is
 implementation dependent. When the encoding is UTF-16, whether or not the
 output is big-endian or little-endian is implementation dependent, but a
 Byte Order Mark must be generated for non-character outputs, such as
 LSOutput.byteStream or LSOutput.systemId. If
 the Byte Order Mark is not generated, a "byte-order-mark-needed" warning
 is reported. When the encoding is UTF-16LE or UTF-16BE, the output is
 big-endian (UTF-16BE) or little-endian (UTF-16LE) and the Byte Order Mark
 is not be generated. In all cases, the encoding declaration, if
 generated, will correspond to the encoding used during the serialization
 (e.g. encoding="UTF-16" will appear if UTF-16 was
 requested).
 
Namespaces are fixed up during serialization, the serialization process will verify that namespace declarations, namespace prefixes and the namespace URI associated with elements and attributes are consistent. If inconsistencies are found, the serialized form of the document will be altered to remove them. The method used for doing the namespace fixup while serializing a document is the algorithm defined in Appendix B.1, "Namespace normalization", of [DOM Level 3 Core] .
While serializing a document, the parameter "discard-default-content" controls whether or not non-specified data is serialized.
 While serializing, errors and warnings are reported to the application
 through the error handler (LSSerializer.domConfig's "
 error-handler" parameter). This specification does in no way try to define all possible
 errors and warnings that can occur while serializing a DOM node, but some
 common error and warning cases are defined. The types (
 DOMError.type) of errors and warnings defined by this
 specification are:
 
"no-output-specified" [fatal]LSOutput if no output is specified in the
 LSOutput. "unbound-prefix-in-entity-reference" [fatal] true and an entity whose replacement text
 contains unbound namespace prefixes is referenced in a location where
 there are no bindings for the namespace prefixes. "unsupported-encoding" [fatal]In addition to raising the defined errors and warnings, implementations are expected to raise implementation specific errors and warnings for any other error and warning cases such as IO errors (file not found, permission denied,...) and so on.
See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load and Save Specification.
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description | 
|---|---|
| DOMConfiguration | getDomConfig()The  DOMConfigurationobject used by theLSSerializerwhen serializing a DOM node. | 
| LSSerializerFilter | getFilter()When the application provides a filter, the serializer will call out
 to the filter before serializing each Node. | 
| String | getNewLine()The end-of-line sequence of characters to be used in the XML being
 written out. | 
| void | setFilter(LSSerializerFilter filter)When the application provides a filter, the serializer will call out
 to the filter before serializing each Node. | 
| void | setNewLine(String newLine)The end-of-line sequence of characters to be used in the XML being
 written out. | 
| boolean | write(Node nodeArg,
     LSOutput destination)Serialize the specified node as described above in the general
 description of the  LSSerializerinterface. | 
| String | writeToString(Node nodeArg)Serialize the specified node as described above in the general
 description of the  LSSerializerinterface. | 
| boolean | writeToURI(Node nodeArg,
          String uri)A convenience method that acts as if  LSSerializer.writewas called with aLSOutputwith no encoding specified
 andLSOutput.systemIdset to theuriargument. | 
DOMConfiguration getDomConfig()
DOMConfiguration object used by the
 LSSerializer when serializing a DOM node.
 DOMConfiguration objects for
 LSSerializer adds, or modifies, the following
 parameters:
 "canonical-form"truetrue will set the parameters
 "format-pretty-print", "discard-default-content", and "xml-declaration
 ", to false. Setting one of those parameters to
 true will set this parameter to false.
 Serializing an XML 1.1 document when "canonical-form" is
 true will generate a fatal error. false"discard-default-content"trueAttr.specified attribute to decide what attributes
 should be discarded. Note that some implementations might use
 whatever information available to the implementation (i.e. XML
 schema, DTD, the Attr.specified attribute, and so on) to
 determine what attributes and content to discard if this parameter is
 set to true. false"format-pretty-print"truefalse"ignore-unknown-character-denormalizations" true"unknown-character-denormalization" warning (instead of
 raising an error, if this parameter is not set) and ignore any
 possible denormalizations caused by these characters. false"normalize-characters"DOMConfiguration in [DOM Level 3 Core]
 . Unlike in the Core, the default value for this parameter is
 true. While DOM implementations are not required to
 support fully
 normalizing the characters in the document according to appendix E of [XML 1.1], this
 parameter must be activated by default if supported. "xml-declaration"trueDocument, Element, or Entity
  node is serialized, the XML declaration, or text declaration, should
 be included. The version (Document.xmlVersion if the
 document is a Level 3 document and the version is non-null, otherwise
 use the value "1.0"), and the output encoding (see
 LSSerializer.write for details on how to find the output
 encoding) are specified in the serialized XML declaration. false"xml-declaration-needed" warning if this will cause
 problems (i.e. the serialized data is of an XML version other than [XML 1.0], or an
 encoding would be needed to be able to re-parse the serialized data). String getNewLine()
null will reset its
 value to the default value.
 void setNewLine(String newLine)
null will reset its
 value to the default value.
 LSSerializerFilter getFilter()
DOMConfiguration parameters have been applied. For
 example, CDATA sections won't be passed to the filter if "
 cdata-sections" is set to false.void setFilter(LSSerializerFilter filter)
DOMConfiguration parameters have been applied. For
 example, CDATA sections won't be passed to the filter if "
 cdata-sections" is set to false.boolean write(Node nodeArg, LSOutput destination) throws LSException
LSSerializer interface. The output is
 written to the supplied LSOutput.
 LSOutput, the encoding is found by
 looking at the encoding information that is reachable through the
 LSOutput and the item to be written (or its owner
 document) in this order:
 LSOutput.encoding,
 Document.inputEncoding,
 Document.xmlEncoding.
 LSOutput, a
 "no-output-specified" fatal error is raised.
 nodeArg - The node to serialize.destination - The destination for the serialized DOM.true if node was
   successfully serialized. Return false in case the
   normal processing stopped but the implementation kept serializing
   the document; the result of the serialization being implementation
   dependent then.LSException - SERIALIZE_ERR: Raised if the LSSerializer was unable to
   serialize the node. DOM applications should attach a
   DOMErrorHandler using the parameter "
   error-handler" if they wish to get details on the error.boolean writeToURI(Node nodeArg, String uri) throws LSException
LSSerializer.write
 was called with a LSOutput with no encoding specified
 and LSOutput.systemId set to the uri
 argument.nodeArg - The node to serialize.uri - The URI to write to.true if node was
   successfully serialized. Return false in case the
   normal processing stopped but the implementation kept serializing
   the document; the result of the serialization being implementation
   dependent then.LSException - SERIALIZE_ERR: Raised if the LSSerializer was unable to
   serialize the node. DOM applications should attach a
   DOMErrorHandler using the parameter "
   error-handler" if they wish to get details on the error.String writeToString(Node nodeArg) throws DOMException, LSException
LSSerializer interface. The output is
 written to a DOMString that is returned to the caller.
 The encoding used is the encoding of the DOMString type,
 i.e. UTF-16. Note that no Byte Order Mark is generated in a
 DOMString object.nodeArg - The node to serialize.DOMException - DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the resulting string is too long to
   fit in a DOMString.LSException - SERIALIZE_ERR: Raised if the LSSerializer was unable to
   serialize the node. DOM applications should attach a
   DOMErrorHandler using the parameter "
   error-handler" if they wish to get details on the error. Submit a bug or feature 
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