XMLSerializer

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