The Serializer (Writer) Model#

The serializer roughly follows sections 8.1 Writing HTML documents and section 8.3 Serializing HTML fragments by converting DOMDocument, DOMDocumentFragment, and DOMNodeList into HTML5.

   [ HTML5 ]   // Interface for saving.
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 [ Traverser ]   // Walk the DOM
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   [ Rules ]     // Convert DOM elements into strings.
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   [ HTML5 ]     // HTML5 document or fragment in text.

HTML5 Class#

Provides the top level interface for saving.

The Traverser#

Walks the DOM finding each element and passing it off to the output rules to convert to HTML5.

Output Rules#

The output rules are defined in the RulesInterface which can have multiple implementations. Currently, the OutputRules is the default implementation that converts a DOM as is into HTML5.

HTML5 String#

The output of the process it HTML5 as a string or saved to a file.