Package genshi :: Module output :: Class TextSerializer |

# Class TextSerializer

    object --+
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            TextSerializer

Produces plain text from an event stream.

Only text events are included in the output. Unlike the other serializer, special XML characters are not escaped:

    >>> from genshi.builder import tag
    >>> elem = tag.div(tag.a('<Hello!>', href='foo'), tag.br)
    >>> print elem
    <div><a href="foo">&lt;Hello!&gt;</a><br/></div>
    >>> print ''.join(TextSerializer()(elem.generate()))
    <Hello!>

If text events contain literal markup (instances of the Markup class), that markup is by default passed through unchanged:

    >>> elem = tag.div(Markup('<a href="foo">Hello &amp; Bye!</a><br/>'))
    >>> print elem.generate().render(TextSerializer)
    <a href="foo">Hello &amp; Bye!</a><br/>

You can use the `strip_markup` to change this behavior, so that tags and entities are stripped from the output (or in the case of entities, replaced with the equivalent character):

    >>> print elem.generate().render(TextSerializer, strip_markup=True)
    Hello & Bye!

Instance Methods
__init__(self, strip_markup=False) Create the serializer. |
__call__(self, stream) |
Inherited from `object`: `__delattr__`, `__getattribute__`, `__hash__`, `__new__`, `__reduce__`, `__reduce_ex__`, `__repr__`, `__setattr__`, `__str__`

Properties
Inherited from `object`: `__class__`

Method Details

### __init__(self, strip_markup=False) (Constructor) |
Create the serializer. Parameters: `strip_markup` - whether markup (tags and encoded characters) found in the text should be removed Overrides: object.__init__