## org.apache.xml.serializer
Interface DOMSerializer

All Known Subinterfaces:
  DOMSerializer, SerializationHandler

public interface DOMSerializer

Interface for a DOM serializer implementation.

The DOMSerializer is a facet of a serializer and is obtained from the asDOMSerializer() method of the (`Serializer`) interface. A serializer may or may not support a DOM serializer, if it does not then the return value from asDOMSerializer() is null.

Example:

     // Create a document to be serialized
     org.w3c.dom.Document doc = ...;

     // Create a Serializer that will be used
     // to serialize the document
     org.apache.xml.serializer.Serializer ser = ...;

     // Set the Writer to write output to, and
     // serialize the DOM using that Serializer
     java.io.StringWriter sw = new java.io.StringWriter();
     ser.setWriter(sw);
     DOMSerialzier dser = ser.asDOMSerializer();
     dser.serialize(doc);

     // Write out the serialized XML in the String.
     System.out.println(sw.toString());

See Also:
  `OutputPropertiesFactory`, `SerializerFactory`, `Serializer`
Usage:

Method Summary
`void` `serialize(Node node)` Serializes the DOM node.

Method Detail

### serialize

    public void serialize(Node node)
                   throws java.io.IOException

  Serializes the DOM node. Throws an exception only if an I/O exception occured while serializing. This interface is a public API.
  Parameters:
    `node` - the DOM node to serialize
  Throws:
    java.io.IOException - if an I/O exception occured while serializing

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