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!