Xalan: The org.apache.xml.serializer.Serializer Interface

Sub Interfaces: org.apache.xml.serializer.SerializationHandler

Members

Overview

The Serializer interface is implemented by Serializers to publish methods to get and set streams and writers, to set the output properties, and get the Serializer as a ContentHandler or DOMSerializer.

Method Overviews

This method has important methods to return a ContentHandler interface into this serializer, return a DOMSerializer interface into this serializer etc. This can be reused with different configuration by calling reset() method.

Example of creating a Serializer object:

Generally org.apache.xml.serializer.SerializerFactory is used to create an instance of Serializer object.

java.util.Properties prop = OutputPropertiesFactory.getDefaultMethodProperties("xml");

            Serializer ser = SerializerFactory.getSerializer(prop);

In the above example, I have used created a Properties object using  OutputPropertiesFactory.getDefaultMethodProperties("xml"). The I have creates an instance of Serializer instance.

Example of asDOMSerializer():

This method returns a org.apache.xml.serializer.DOMSerializer interface into this serializer. If the serializer does not support the DOMSerializer interface, it should return null.

            DOMSerializer domSerializer = ser.asDOMSerializer();

A DOM serializer is a facet of a serializer. A serializer may or may not support a DOM serializer. A DOMserializer is used to Serializes the DOM node. So as I have mentioned, this class is useful to serialize XML related objects.

Example of asContentHandler():

This method returns a ContentHandler interface into this serializer. If the serializer does not support the ContentHandler interface, it should return null. Before using this menthod ensure that your serializer os SAX2 compliant otherwise, it will return null.

ContentHandler cont = ser.asContentHandler();