genshi.output.XMLSerializer

Class XMLSerializer

object --+ | XMLSerializer

Produces XML text from an event stream.

>>> from genshi.builder import tag >>> elem = tag.div(tag.a(href='foo'), tag.br, tag.hr(noshade=True)) >>> print(''.join(XMLSerializer()(elem.generate()))) <div><a href="foo"/><br/><hr noshade="True"/></div>

Instance Methods

__init__(self, doctype=None, strip_whitespace=True, namespace_prefixes=None, cache=True)
Initialize the XML serializer.

__call__(self, stream)

Inherited from object: __delattr__, __format__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __new__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __repr__, __setattr__, __sizeof__, __str__, __subclasshook__

Properties

Inherited from object: __class__

Method Details

init(self, doctype=None, strip_whitespace=True, namespace_prefixes=None, cache=True)
(Constructor)

Initialize the XML serializer.

Parameters:

doctype - a (name, pubid, sysid) tuple that represents the DOCTYPE declaration that should be included at the top of the generated output, or the name of a DOCTYPE as defined in DocType.get
strip_whitespace - whether extraneous whitespace should be stripped from the output
cache - whether to cache the text output per event, which improves performance for repetitive markup

Overrides: object.__init__

Notes:

Changed in 0.4.2: The doctype parameter can now be a string.
Changed in 0.6: The cache parameter was added

Class XMLSerializer

__init__(self, doctype=None, strip_whitespace=True, namespace_prefixes=None, cache=True) (Constructor)

init(self, doctype=None, strip_whitespace=True, namespace_prefixes=None, cache=True)
(Constructor)