xmlserializer

xmlserializer serializes a DOM subtree or DOM document into XML/XHTML.

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It understands documents generated by parse5 and regular browser DOMs (and thus can act as a drop-in replacement for XMLSerializer which for some browsers only serializes true XML documents).

Limitations
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See the wiki for limitations in HTML to XML conversion.

Currently some cases are treated differently to the XMLSerializer implementation of the browsers:

- Invalid characters (ASCII control characters) that are invalid in XML 1.0 are removed on serialization. The browsers silently include those characters and on reparsing those documents throw a parser exception.
- Dashes in comments are escaped to provide valid comments in XHTML. Firefox does not do this.
- The xmlns attribute has higher precedence than the type of the DOM object passed to the serializer.
- Small differences in style: no space in self-closing tag, empty value for boolean attributes, quoting of single apostrophes in attribute values.

This behaviour might become optional in the future.

Demo
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See https://runkit.com/embed/siinwcyjdcjw

Run tests and build for the browser
-----------------------------------

$ npm install && npm test


Example
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For a browser based example run npm test and see example.html.

The same code for Node.js:

``js
var xmlserializer = require('xmlserializer');
var html2xhtml = function (htmlString) {
var parser = require('parse5'),
dom = parser.parse(htmlString);

return xmlserializer.serializeToString(dom);
};
console.log(html2xhtml('
'));
// =>

``