DefinitelyTyped/types/xmlserializer/index.d.ts
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// Type definitions for xmlserializer 0.6
// Project: https://github.com/cburgmer/xmlserializer#readme
// Definitions by: Eoin O'Brien <https://github.com/eoin-obrien>
// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
// TypeScript Version: 2.2
/// <reference types="node" />
import * as parse5 from 'parse5';
export as namespace xmlserializer;
/**
* Serializes a DOM subtree or DOM document into XML/XHTML.
*
* 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).
*
* 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.
*
* @example
* import * as xmlserializer from 'xmlserializer';
* import * as parse5 from 'parse5';
*
* const html2xhtml = (htmlString: string) => {
* const dom = parse5.parse(htmlString);
* return xmlserializer.serializeToString(dom);
* };
*
* console.log(html2xhtml('<br>'));
*
* @param node the DOM element to be serialized to XML/XHTML
*/
export function serializeToString(node: parse5.Element): string;