Package org.smooks.engine.delivery.sax.ng.org.apache.xml.serialize

Class HTMLSerializer

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    DOMSerializer, Serializer, ContentHandler, DocumentHandler, DTDHandler, DeclHandler, LexicalHandler
    Direct Known Subclasses:
    XHTMLSerializer
    public class HTMLSerializer
extends BaseMarkupSerializer
    Deprecated.
    This class was deprecated in Xerces 2.6.2. It is recommended that new applications use JAXP's Transformation API for XML (TrAX) for serializing HTML. See the Xerces documentation for more information.
    Implements an HTML/XHTML serializer supporting both DOM and SAX pretty serializing. HTML/XHTML mode is determined in the constructor. For usage instructions see Serializer.

    If an output stream is used, the encoding is taken from the output format (defaults to UTF-8). If a writer is used, make sure the writer uses the same encoding (if applies) as specified in the output format.

    The serializer supports both DOM and SAX. DOM serializing is done by calling BaseMarkupSerializer.serialize(org.w3c.dom.Element) and SAX serializing is done by firing SAX events and using the serializer as a document handler.

    If an I/O exception occurs while serializing, the serializer will not throw an exception directly, but only throw it at the end of serializing (either DOM or SAX's DocumentHandler.endDocument().

    For elements that are not specified as whitespace preserving, the serializer will potentially break long text lines at space boundaries, indent lines, and serialize elements on separate lines. Line terminators will be regarded as spaces, and spaces at beginning of line will be stripped.

    XHTML is slightly different than HTML:

    • Element/attribute names are lower case and case matters
    • Attributes must specify value, even if empty string
    • Empty elements must have '/' in empty tag
    • Contents of SCRIPT and STYLE elements serialized as CDATA
    Version:
    $Revision$ $Date$
    Author:
    Assaf Arkin
    See Also:
    Serializer