Serialization Format

• There is now a standard serialization format but Saxon doesn't support it yet

• <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <title>TCP/IP Illustrated</title><title>Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment</title><title>Data on the Web</title><title>The Economics of Technology and Content for Digital TV</title>
  

• Algorithm for converting sequence to a document fragment:

  1. Convert each atomic value to a string.

  2. Concatenate adjacent strings after separating them with a single space.

  3. Change the strings to text nodes

  4. Replace any document node in the sequence with its children.

  5. It is a serialization error if the sequence contains an attribute node or a namespace node at this point.

• Output methods:

  • xml

  • html

  • xhtml

• Serialization options:

  • version

  • encoding

  • indent

  • cdata-section-elements

  • omit-xml-declaration

  • doctype-system

  • doctype-public

  • undeclare-namespaces Parameter

  • media-type

  • normalize-unicode

  • use-character-maps