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# The Serializer (Writer) Model |
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The serializer roughly follows sections _8.1 Writing HTML documents_ and section |
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_8.3 Serializing HTML fragments_ by converting DOMDocument, DOMDocumentFragment, |
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and DOMNodeList into HTML5. |
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[ 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. |
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## HTML5 Class |
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Provides the top level interface for saving. |
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## The Traverser |
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Walks the DOM finding each element and passing it off to the output rules to |
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convert to HTML5. |
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## Output Rules |
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The output rules are defined in the RulesInterface which can have multiple |
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implementations. Currently, the OutputRules is the default implementation that |
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converts a DOM as is into HTML5. |
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## HTML5 String |
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The output of the process it HTML5 as a string or saved to a file. |
