org.apache.xml.serialize
Class XMLSerializer

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.apache.xml.serialize.BaseMarkupSerializer
      extended by org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer
All Implemented Interfaces:
DOMSerializer, Serializer, ContentHandler, DocumentHandler, DTDHandler, DeclHandler, LexicalHandler
Direct Known Subclasses:
XML11Serializer

Deprecated. This class was deprecated in Xerces 2.9.0. It is recommended that new applications use the DOM Level 3 LSSerializer or JAXP's Transformation API for XML (TrAX) for serializing XML. See the Xerces documentation for more information.

public class XMLSerializer
extends BaseMarkupSerializer

Implements an XML serializer supporting both DOM and SAX pretty serializing. 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. SAX serializing is done by firing SAX events and using the serializer as a document handler. DOM serializing is done by calling BaseMarkupSerializer.serialize(Document) or by using DOM Level 3 LSSerializer and serializing with LSSerializer.write(org.w3c.dom.Node, org.w3c.dom.ls.LSOutput), LSSerializer.writeToString(org.w3c.dom.Node).

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.

Version:
$Revision: 476047 $ $Date: 2006-11-16 23:27:45 -0500 (Thu, 16 Nov 2006) $
Author:
Assaf Arkin, Rahul Srivastava, Elena Litani IBM
See Also:
Serializer

Constructor Summary
XMLSerializer()
          Deprecated. Constructs a new serializer.
XMLSerializer(OutputFormat format)
          Deprecated. Constructs a new serializer.
XMLSerializer(java.io.OutputStream output, OutputFormat format)
          Deprecated. Constructs a new serializer that writes to the specified output stream using the specified output format.
XMLSerializer(java.io.Writer writer, OutputFormat format)
          Deprecated. Constructs a new serializer that writes to the specified writer using the specified output format.
 
Method Summary
 void endElement(java.lang.String tagName)
          Deprecated. Receive notification of the end of an element.
 void endElement(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName, java.lang.String rawName)
          Deprecated. Receive notification of the end of an element.
 void endElementIO(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName, java.lang.String rawName)
          Deprecated.  
 boolean reset()
          Deprecated.  
 void setNamespaces(boolean namespaces)
          Deprecated. This methods turns on namespace fixup algorithm during DOM serialization.
 void setOutputFormat(OutputFormat format)
          Deprecated. Specifies an output format for this serializer.
 void startElement(java.lang.String tagName, AttributeList attrs)
          Deprecated. Receive notification of the beginning of an element.
 void startElement(java.lang.String namespaceURI, java.lang.String localName, java.lang.String rawName, Attributes attrs)
          Deprecated. Receive notification of the beginning of an element.
 
Methods inherited from class org.apache.xml.serialize.BaseMarkupSerializer
asContentHandler, asDocumentHandler, asDOMSerializer, attributeDecl, characters, comment, comment, elementDecl, endCDATA, endDocument, endDTD, endEntity, endNonEscaping, endPrefixMapping, endPreserving, externalEntityDecl, ignorableWhitespace, internalEntityDecl, notationDecl, processingInstruction, processingInstructionIO, serialize, serialize, serialize, setDocumentLocator, setOutputByteStream, setOutputCharStream, skippedEntity, startCDATA, startDocument, startDTD, startEntity, startNonEscaping, startPrefixMapping, startPreserving, unparsedEntityDecl
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

XMLSerializer

public XMLSerializer()
Deprecated. 
Constructs a new serializer. The serializer cannot be used without calling BaseMarkupSerializer.setOutputCharStream(java.io.Writer) or BaseMarkupSerializer.setOutputByteStream(java.io.OutputStream) first.


XMLSerializer

public XMLSerializer(OutputFormat format)
Deprecated. 
Constructs a new serializer. The serializer cannot be used without calling BaseMarkupSerializer.setOutputCharStream(java.io.Writer) or BaseMarkupSerializer.setOutputByteStream(java.io.OutputStream) first.


XMLSerializer

public XMLSerializer(java.io.Writer writer,
                     OutputFormat format)
Deprecated. 
Constructs a new serializer that writes to the specified writer using the specified output format. If format is null, will use a default output format.

Parameters:
writer - The writer to use
format - The output format to use, null for the default

XMLSerializer

public XMLSerializer(java.io.OutputStream output,
                     OutputFormat format)
Deprecated. 
Constructs a new serializer that writes to the specified output stream using the specified output format. If format is null, will use a default output format.

Parameters:
output - The output stream to use
format - The output format to use, null for the default
Method Detail

setOutputFormat

public void setOutputFormat(OutputFormat format)
Deprecated. 
Description copied from interface: Serializer
Specifies an output format for this serializer. It the serializer has already been associated with an output format, it will switch to the new format. This method should not be called while the serializer is in the process of serializing a document.

Specified by:
setOutputFormat in interface Serializer
Overrides:
setOutputFormat in class BaseMarkupSerializer
Parameters:
format - The output format to use

setNamespaces

public void setNamespaces(boolean namespaces)
Deprecated. 
This methods turns on namespace fixup algorithm during DOM serialization.

Parameters:
namespaces -
See Also:
LSSerializer

startElement

public void startElement(java.lang.String namespaceURI,
                         java.lang.String localName,
                         java.lang.String rawName,
                         Attributes attrs)
                  throws SAXException
Deprecated. 
Description copied from interface: ContentHandler
Receive notification of the beginning of an element.

The Parser will invoke this method at the beginning of every element in the XML document; there will be a corresponding endElement event for every startElement event (even when the element is empty). All of the element's content will be reported, in order, before the corresponding endElement event.

This event allows up to three name components for each element:

  1. the Namespace URI;
  2. the local name; and
  3. the qualified (prefixed) name.

Any or all of these may be provided, depending on the values of the http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces and the http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes properties:

Note that the attribute list provided will contain only attributes with explicit values (specified or defaulted): #IMPLIED attributes will be omitted. The attribute list will contain attributes used for Namespace declarations (xmlns* attributes) only if the http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes property is true (it is false by default, and support for a true value is optional).

Like characters(), attribute values may have characters that need more than one char value.

Parameters:
namespaceURI - the Namespace URI, or the empty string if the element has no Namespace URI or if Namespace processing is not being performed
localName - the local name (without prefix), or the empty string if Namespace processing is not being performed
rawName - the qualified name (with prefix), or the empty string if qualified names are not available
attrs - the attributes attached to the element. If there are no attributes, it shall be an empty Attributes object. The value of this object after startElement returns is undefined
Throws:
SAXException - any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception
See Also:
ContentHandler.endElement(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String), Attributes, AttributesImpl

endElement

public void endElement(java.lang.String namespaceURI,
                       java.lang.String localName,
                       java.lang.String rawName)
                throws SAXException
Deprecated. 
Description copied from interface: ContentHandler
Receive notification of the end of an element.

The SAX parser will invoke this method at the end of every element in the XML document; there will be a corresponding startElement event for every endElement event (even when the element is empty).

For information on the names, see startElement.

Parameters:
namespaceURI - the Namespace URI, or the empty string if the element has no Namespace URI or if Namespace processing is not being performed
localName - the local name (without prefix), or the empty string if Namespace processing is not being performed
rawName - the qualified XML name (with prefix), or the empty string if qualified names are not available
Throws:
SAXException - any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception

endElementIO

public void endElementIO(java.lang.String namespaceURI,
                         java.lang.String localName,
                         java.lang.String rawName)
                  throws java.io.IOException
Deprecated. 
Throws:
java.io.IOException

startElement

public void startElement(java.lang.String tagName,
                         AttributeList attrs)
                  throws SAXException
Deprecated. 
Description copied from interface: DocumentHandler
Receive notification of the beginning of an element.

The Parser will invoke this method at the beginning of every element in the XML document; there will be a corresponding endElement() event for every startElement() event (even when the element is empty). All of the element's content will be reported, in order, before the corresponding endElement() event.

If the element name has a namespace prefix, the prefix will still be attached. Note that the attribute list provided will contain only attributes with explicit values (specified or defaulted): #IMPLIED attributes will be omitted.

Parameters:
tagName - The element type name.
attrs - The attributes attached to the element, if any.
Throws:
SAXException - Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.
See Also:
DocumentHandler.endElement(java.lang.String), AttributeList

endElement

public void endElement(java.lang.String tagName)
                throws SAXException
Deprecated. 
Description copied from interface: DocumentHandler
Receive notification of the end of an element.

The SAX parser will invoke this method at the end of every element in the XML document; there will be a corresponding startElement() event for every endElement() event (even when the element is empty).

If the element name has a namespace prefix, the prefix will still be attached to the name.

Parameters:
tagName - The element type name
Throws:
SAXException - Any SAX exception, possibly wrapping another exception.

reset

public boolean reset()
Deprecated. 
Overrides:
reset in class BaseMarkupSerializer