Serializers

• A Serializer is used to render an input XML structure into some other format ( not necessarily XML )

• Different types of serializers:

  • HTML Serializer
  • FOP Serializer
  • Text Serializer
  • XML Serializer
  • …

• More serializers can be added without modifying Cocoon.

<map:serializers default="html">

<map:serializer name="xml" mime-type="text/xml" src="org.apache.cocoon.serialization.XMLSerializer"/>

<map:serializer name="html" mime-type="text/html" src="org.apache.cocoon.serialization.HTMLSerializer"/>

<map:serializer name="fo2pdf" mime-type="application/pdf" src="org.apache.cocoon.serialization.FOPSerializer"/>

<map:serializer name="vrml" mime-type="model/vrml" src="org.apache.cocoon.serialization.TextSerializer"/>

…

</map:serializers>

<map:match pattern="hello.html">

<map:generate src="docs/samples/hello-page.xml"/>

<map:transform src="stylesheets/page/simple-page2html.xsl"/>

<map:serialize type="html"/>

</map:match>

Sitemap entries for different types of serializers

A sample serializer entry in a pipeline

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