Serialization

• The process of taking an in-memory DOM tree and converting it to a stream of characters that can be written onto an output stream

• Not a standard part of DOM Level 2

• The org.apache.xml.serialize package:

  • public interface DOMSerializer

  • public interface Serializer

  • public abstract class BaseMarkupSerializer extends Object implements DocumentHandler, org.xml.sax.misc.LexicalHandler, DTDHandler, org.xml.sax.misc.DeclHandler, DOMSerializer, Serializer

  • public class HTMLSerializer extends BaseMarkupSerializer

  • public final class TextSerializer extends BaseMarkupSerializer

  • public final class XHTMLSerializer extends HTMLSerializer

  • public final class XMLSerializer extends BaseMarkupSerializer