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@@ -88,15 +88,20 @@ events and builds a document tree (`DOMDocument`) based on the events. The serializer takes a data structure (the `DOMDocument`) and transforms it into a character representation -- an HTML5 document. -The serializer is broken into two parts: +The serializer is broken into three parts: +- The `OutputRules` contain the rules to turn DOM elements into strings. The +rules used are configurable with the `OutputRules` being the default. An option +can be set by default or at call time to use a different ruleset that implements +`RulesInterface`. - The `Traverser`, which is a special-purpose tree walker. It visits -each node and transforms it into a string. +each node node in the tree and uses the `OutputRules` to transform the node +into a string. - The `Serializer` manages the `Traverser` and stores the resultant data in the correct place. The serializer (`save()`, `saveHTML()`) follows the -[section 8.9 of the HTML 5.0 spec] (http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-html5-20121217/syntax.html#serializing-html-fragments). +[section 8.9 of the HTML 5.0 spec](http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-html5-20121217/syntax.html#serializing-html-fragments). So tags are serialized according to these rules: - A tag with children: <foo>CHILDREN</foo> |