org.apache.xml.serializer
Interface DOMSerializer

All Known Subinterfaces:

DOMSerializer, SerializationHandler

public interface DOMSerializer

Interface for a DOM serializer implementation.

The DOMSerializer is a facet of a serializer and is obtained from the asDOMSerializer() method of the Serializer interface. A serializer may or may not support a DOM serializer, if it does not then the return value from asDOMSerializer() is null.

Example:

 Document     doc;
 Serializer   ser;
 OutputStream os;
 
 ser = ...;
 os = ...;

 ser.setOutputStream( os );
 DOMSerialzier dser = ser.asDOMSerializer();
 dser.serialize(doc);
 

See Also:

Serializer

Usage:

Method Summary

void	serialize(Node node) Serializes the DOM node.

Method Detail

serialize

public void serialize(Node node)
               throws java.io.IOException

Serializes the DOM node. Throws an exception only if an I/O exception occured while serializing. This interface is a public API.

Parameters:

node - the DOM node to serialize

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if an I/O exception occured while serializing