c:serialize

<c:serialize
  format? = { eqname }
  method? = { "xml" | "html" | "text" | eqname }
  byte-order-mark? = { boolean }
  cdata-section-elements? = { eqname* }
  doctype-public? = { string }
  doctype-system? = { string }
  encoding? = { string }
  escape-uri-attributes? = { boolean }
  indent? = { boolean }
  indent-spaces? = { integer }
  item-separator? = { string }
  media-type? = { string }
  omit-xml-declaration? = { boolean }
  standalone? = { boolean | "omit" }
  output-version? = { nmtoken }
  skip-character-check? = { boolean } >
  <!-- Content: sequence-constructor -->
</c:serialize>

Creates a string representation of its contents.

Category
instruction
Permitted parent elements
Any XCST element whose content model is sequence-constructor
Any literal result element

Attributes

byte-order-mark Specifies whether a byte order mark is written at the start of the file.
cdata-section-elements Specifies elements whose child text nodes should be wrapped in a CDATA section.
doctype-public Specifies a public document type declaration.
doctype-system Specifies a system document type declaration.
encoding Specifies the output encoding.
escape-uri-attributes Specifies whether to escape URI attributes in HTML documents.
format The name of the output definition to get serialization parameters from.
indent Specifies whether to indent the output.
indent-spaces The number of spaces to use for indenting.
item-separator A string to intersperse between items.
media-type The media type (MIME content type) of the output, to include in a meta element in the head of HTML documents.
method Specifies the output format.
omit-xml-declaration Specifies whether to omit the XML declaration.
output-version The version of the output format.
skip-character-check Specifies whether to skip character checking that ensures the output does not contain any illegal characters.
standalone Specifies whether to include the standalone document declaration.

In addition to the attributes in the preceding table, there are a number of standard attributes that may appear on any XCST element.

See Also