c:serialize

<c:serialize
  use-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.
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.
use-format The name of the output definition to get serialization parameters from.

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