Serializers

Serializers take the pipeline data as a DOM document and output it to the client. There are four basic types at present supported within Paloose:

HTMLSerializer — outputs simple HTML with option of a leading DOCTYPE declaration and character encoding information.
XHTMLSerializer — outputs correct XHTML with option of a leading DOCTYPE declaration and character encoding information.
TextSerializer — outputs pure text derived from the content of the pipeline DOM document.
XMLSerializer — outputs the DOM Document as an XML stream.

Component Declaration

Warning

Note that this is a change from all versions prior to 1.13.0.

Serializers are defined in the component declaration part of the Sitemap.

<map:serializers default="xml"> <map:serializer name="html" src="resource://lib/serialization/HTMLSerializer"> <map:property name="doctype-public" value="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"/> <map:property name="doctype-system" value="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"/> <map:property name="encoding" value="UTF-8"/> </map:serializer> <map:serializer name="xhtml" src="resource://lib/serialization/XHTMLSerializer"> <map:property name="doctype-public" value="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"/> <map:property name="doctype-system" value="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/> <map:property name="encoding" value="UTF-8"/> </map:serializer> <map:serializer name="text" src="resource://lib/serialization/TextSerializer"/> <map:serializer name="xml" src="resource://lib/serialization/XMLSerializer"> <map:property name="doctype-public" value="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"/> <map:property name="doctype-system" value="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"/> <map:property name="encoding" value="UTF-8"/> </map:serializers>

The default attribute specifies the type of serializer to use if none is specified in a pipeline.