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<task id="GUID-E20C2C98-A294-551B-99CF-BE1DAA6F597E" xml:lang="en"><title>Serialising

XML DOM</title><shortdesc>This topic explains how to serialise a DOM document and save it

to a file. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><taskbody>

<prereq><p>Before you start, you must: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-128FA93B-B492-5F86-8E94-2DE1FDC3E29C"><p>understand the concepts

of <xref href="http://www.w3.org/DOM/" scope="external">Document Object Model

(DOM)</xref> and serialisation </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-B55CE275-DE00-5788-8D53-0F581078FFC9"><p>understand the structure

and classes of the <xref href="GUID-5ACFA8E4-3C4B-5851-A43E-9FA72D0B8403.dita">XML

DOM Engine </xref> component </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-75078E65-3FB2-5DC1-8D52-3D5B0E1A9674"><p>have created an <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>RXmlEngDocument</apiname></xref> (called <codeph>myDoc </codeph> in

this example), either by parsing an XML file (as indicated in the <xref href="GUID-C5C30218-311C-58D9-A990-3F95642F7517.dita">XML

DOM Parsing Tutorial</xref>) or by adding nodes to a new DOM tree. </p> </li>

</ul> </prereq>

<context> <p>The XML Engine is based on the libxml2 library, which supports

the serialisation of XML documents. This process converts a DOM tree into

a format that can be saved to a file or transferred through a network connection. </p> <p>This

tutorial explains how to save an existing XML document to a file. To store

the result in a buffer, use the <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>SetOutput(RBuf8&amp;)</apiname></xref> method

instead of the <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>SetOutputL(TDesC&amp;)</apiname></xref> method

used below. </p> </context>

<steps id="GUID-818D2E7F-4ECB-5687-AF68-2C02930519C7">

<step id="GUID-A241AD29-F46C-51DE-A30A-7F37AAACB5D4"><cmd/>

<info>If you have not done it earlier, call the <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>XmlEnginePushL()</apiname></xref> method

to open the XML library and put serialisation resources on the clean-up stack. </info>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-8CBCDA21-7DFB-5608-811F-4F9B126BD0A7" xml:space="preserve">XmlEnginePushL();</codeblock> </stepxmp>

</step>

<step id="GUID-3A35C368-F1CB-5183-8C4D-1E141F2B8ED4"><cmd>Create an instance

of the serialiser by calling its <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>NewL()</apiname></xref> method. </cmd>

<info>The serialiser type is a member of the <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>TXmlEngSerializerType</apiname></xref> enumeration. </info>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-587BB00E-579E-593F-B6CD-F58A548C2FBE" xml:space="preserve">CXmlEngSerializer* serializer = CXmlEngSerializer::NewL( ESerializerDefault );</codeblock> </stepxmp>

</step>

<step id="GUID-79270763-1081-57D8-9EB2-D21F7DF7035F"><cmd>Configure the serialiser

by using the <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>SetOutputL()</apiname></xref> and <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>SetSerialisationOptions()</apiname></xref> methods. </cmd>

<info>You set the type of output (file, buffer, or stream) by choosing one

of the <codeph>SetOutput()</codeph> or <codeph>SetOuputL()</codeph> methods. </info>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-5CCEBBCE-EE31-56B5-ADB7-06362097A90E" xml:space="preserve">_LIT( KOutputFile, "c:\\tutorial.xml" );

serializer-&gt;SetOutputL( KOutputFile );</codeblock> </stepxmp>

<info>The <codeph>SetSerialisationOptions()</codeph> function sets other serialisation

options from the <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>TXmlEngSerializationOptions</apiname></xref> class. </info>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-DF615E82-757C-518F-BDC7-55189153D4D7" xml:space="preserve">TXmlEngSerializationOptions options( TXmlEngSerializationOptions::KOptionIndent );

serializer->SetSerializationOptions( options );

</codeblock> </stepxmp>

</step>

<step id="GUID-77071B6A-3FAE-5BC6-BC91-FF998AC1E744"><cmd/>

<info>Call the <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>SerializeL()</apiname></xref> method to save

your document to the <filepath>tutorial.xml</filepath> file. </info>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-2358B434-3A2C-5EEE-A45D-1F0446CBC47F" xml:space="preserve">TInt bytesWritten = serializer-&gt;SerializeL( myDoc );</codeblock> </stepxmp>

</step>

<step id="GUID-EC0F4C51-CD58-5142-A17D-EB4FCAAA7099"><cmd/>

<info>Free your resources as necessary. </info>

<substeps id="GUID-17893DB6-AFBE-5E69-8FBD-F4010C7B0664">

<substep id="GUID-6475F251-42DE-51B2-A4DD-26195B95ACB2"><cmd/>

<info>Close the XML library by calling the <xref href="GUID-5748D958-9480-3358-A399-6B92293B86D9.dita"><apiname>XmlPopAndClose()</apiname></xref> method.

This method also removes the serialisation resources from the clean-up stack. </info>

</substep>

<substep id="GUID-3B286D3D-049D-52A2-893A-B5601A79C727"><cmd/>

<info>Perform any other clean-up operations. </info>

</substep>

</substeps>

</step>

</steps>

<result><p>The data in the <codeph>myDoc</codeph> XML document

is stored in the <filepath>tutorial.xml</filepath> file. </p> </result>