XMLSerializer

XMLSerializer can be used to convert a DOM subtree or DOM document into text. XMLSerializer is available to unprivileged scripts.

For more information about using XMLSerializer in Firefox extensions, please see the documentation for nsIDOMSerializer.

Methods

XMLSerializer.serializeToString()

Returns the serialized subtree of a string.

XMLSerializer.serializeToStream()

The subtree rooted by the specified element is serialized to a byte stream using the character set specified.

Examples

 var s = new XMLSerializer();
 var d = document;
 var str = s.serializeToString(d);
 alert(str);

The next example uses XMLSerializer with insertAdjacentHTML() to insert a newly created DOM Node into the Document's body. Because insertAdjacentHTML() accepts a string and not a Node for its second parameter, XMLSerializer is used to first convert the node into a string.

var inp = document.createElement('input');
var XMLS = new XMLSerializer(); 
var inp_xmls = XMLS.serializeToString(inp); // First convert DOM node into a string


// Insert a newly created node into the document's body
document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin', inp_xmls);

Browser compatibility

See also

• Parsing and serializing XML
• XMLHttpRequest
• DOMParser