Revision 1021720 of XMLSerializer

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  XMLSerializer can be used to convert DOM subtree or DOM document into text. XMLSerializer is available to unprivileged scripts.</div>
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<p>For more information about using <code>XMLSerializer</code> in Firefox extensions, please see the documentation for <a href="/en-US/docs/nsIDOMSerializer" title="nsIDOMSerializer"><code>nsIDOMSerializer</code></a>.</p>
<h2 id="Methods" name="Methods">Methods</h2>
<dl>
  <dt id="serializeToString">
    <code>XMLSerializer.serializeToString</code>()</dt>
  <dd>
    Returns the serialized subtree of a string.</dd>
  <dt id="serializeToStream">
    <code>XMLSerializer.serializeToStream()</code> {{ non-standard_inline() }}{{ deprecated_inline() }}</dt>
  <dd>
    The subtree rooted by the specified element is serialized to a byte stream using the character set specified.</dd>
</dl>
<h2 id="Examples" name="Examples">Examples</h2>
<pre class="brush: js">
 var s = new XMLSerializer();
 var d = document;
 var str = s.serializeToString(d);
 alert(str);</pre>
<p>The next example uses&nbsp;XMLSerializer with&nbsp;<a href="/en-US/docs/DOM/element.insertAdjacentHTML" title="/en-US/docs/DOM/element.insertAdjacentHTML">insertAdjacentHTML()</a>&nbsp;to insert a newly created DOM Node into the Document's body. Because&nbsp;<a href="/en-US/docs/DOM/element.insertAdjacentHTML" title="/en-US/docs/DOM/element.insertAdjacentHTML">insertAdjacentHTML()</a>&nbsp;accepts a string and not a Node for its second parameter,&nbsp;XMLSerializer is used to first convert the node into a string.</p>
<pre class="brush: js">
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);</pre>
<h2 id="Browser_compatibility" name="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>
<div>
  {{CompatibilityTable}}</div>
<div id="compat-desktop">
  <table class="compat-table">
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <th>Feature</th>
        <th>Chrome</th>
        <th>Firefox (Gecko)</th>
        <th>Internet Explorer</th>
        <th>Opera</th>
        <th>Safari (WebKit)</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Basic support</td>
        <td>{{CompatVersionUnknown}}</td>
        <td>{{CompatVersionUnknown}}</td>
        <td>9.0</td>
        <td>{{CompatVersionUnknown}}</td>
        <td>3.0.4</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><code>serializeToStream()</code> {{ non-standard_inline() }}</td>
        <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
        <td>Removed in {{CompatGeckoDesktop("20.0")}}</td>
        <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
        <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
        <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>
</div>
<div id="compat-mobile">
  <table class="compat-table">
    <tbody>
      <tr>
        <th>Feature</th>
        <th>Android</th>
        <th>Firefox Mobile (Gecko)</th>
        <th>IE Mobile</th>
        <th>Opera Mobile</th>
        <th>Safari Mobile</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>Basic support</td>
        <td>{{CompatUnknown}}</td>
        <td>{{CompatVersionUnknown}}</td>
        <td>{{CompatUnknown}}</td>
        <td>{{CompatUnknown}}</td>
        <td>{{CompatUnknown}}</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><code>serializeToStream()</code> {{ non-standard_inline() }}</td>
        <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
        <td>Removed in {{CompatGeckoDesktop("20.0")}}</td>
        <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
        <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
        <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
      </tr>
    </tbody>
  </table>
</div>
<h2 id="See_also" name="See_also">See also</h2>
<ul>
  <li><a href="/en-US/Parsing_and_serializing_XML" title="en-US/Parsing_and_serializing_XML">Parsing and serializing XML</a></li>
  <li><a href="/en-US/XMLHttpRequest" title="en-US/XMLHttpRequest">XMLHttpRequest</a></li>
  <li><a href="/en-US/DOMParser" title="en-US/DOMParser">DOMParser</a></li>
</ul>