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Name

XMLSerializer.serializeToString( ): convert an XML document or node to a string

Synopsis

String serializeToString(Nodenode)

Arguments

node: The XML node to be serialized. This may be a Document object or any Element within the document.

Returns

A string of XML markup that represents the serialized form of the specified node and all its descendants.

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