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The following procedures serialize XML document records into character sequences. All are virtually identical except for the way that the character sequence is represented.
Each procedure will accept either an xml-document
record or any
of the other XML record types. This makes it possible to
write fragments of XML documents, although you should keep in
mind that such fragments aren't documents and won't generally be
accepted by any XML parser.
If the xml being written is an xml-document
record, the
procedures write-xml
and write-xml-file
will look for a
contained xml-declaration
record and its encoding
attribute. If the encoding
is a supported value, the output will
be encoded as specified; otherwise it will be encoded as
UTF-8.
When an XHTML document record is written, named
XHTML characters are translated into their corresponding
entities. For example, the character `#\U+00A0' is written as
` '. In order for an XML document record to be
recognized as XHTML, it must have a DTD record that
satisfies the predicate html-dtd?
.
Write xml to port. Note that character encoding will only be done if port supports it.
Write xml to the file specified by pathname. Roughly equivalent to
(define (write-xml-file xml pathname) (call-with-output-file pathname (lambda (port) (write-xml xml port))))