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<h1>Additional serialization parameters</h1>
<p><i>These extensions are not recognized in Saxon-HE</i></p>
<p>Saxon provides a number of additional serialization parameters, and several additional serialization methods:
these have names
in the Saxon namespace. These can be specified as attributes on the <code>xsl:output</code>
and <code>xsl:result-document</code> elements (XSLT-only), in the Query prolog (XQuery only),
or as extra parameters on the
Query or Transform command line. They can also be specified in the query or transformation API.</p>
<p>For example, to request an indentation depth of one column, specify
<code>!{http://saxon.sf.net/}indent-spaces=1</code> on the command line.</p>
<p>In XQuery, Saxon allows both standard serialization options and Saxon-specific
serialization parameters to be specified by means of a <code>saxon:output</code> option declaration in the
query prolog. For example:</p>
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declare option saxon:output "indent=yes";
declare option saxon:output "saxon:indent-spaces=3";</code>
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<p>The standard serialization parameters described in
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/" class="bodylink">The W3C Serialization specification</a>
are all available, namely:</p>
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<li content="para">
<p>byte-order-mark</p>
</li>
<li content="para">
<p>cdata-section-elements</p>
</li>
<li content="para">
<p>doctype-public</p>
</li>
<li content="para">
<p>doctype-system</p>
</li>
<li content="para">
<p>encoding</p>
</li>
<li content="para">
<p>escape-uri-attributes</p>
</li>
<li content="para">
<p>include-content-type</p>
</li>
<li content="para">
<p>indent</p>
</li>
<li content="para">
<p>media-type</p>
</li>
<li content="para">
<p>method</p>
</li>
<li content="para">
<p>normalization-form</p>
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<li content="para">
<p>omit-xml-declaration</p>
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<li content="para">
<p>standalone</p>
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<li content="para">
<p>undeclare-prefixes</p>
</li>
<li content="para">
<p>use-character-maps (only useful in XSLT)</p>
</li>
<li content="para">
<p>version</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><i>Saxon interprets a zero-length value for <code>doctype-system</code> or <code>doctype-public</code>
as meaning "absent". This is equivalent to omitting the value, except that in some interfaces it will override
a value previously set within the query or stylesheet.</i></p>
<p>The Saxon-supplied serialization parameters are described on the following pages.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/method.xml">The method attribute</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/base64Binary-method.xml">The saxon:base64Binary serialization method</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/hexBinary-method.xml">The saxon:hexBinary serialization method</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/ptree-method.xml">The saxon:ptree serialization method</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/character-representation.xml">The saxon:character-representation attribute</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/double-space.xml">The saxon:double-space attribute</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/indent-spaces.xml">The saxon:indent-spaces attribute</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/line-length.xml">The saxon:line-length attribute</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/next-in-chain.xml">The saxon:next-in-chain attribute</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/recognize-binary.xml">The saxon:recognize-binary attribute</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/require-well-formed.xml">The saxon:require-well-formed attribute</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/supply-source-locator.xml">The saxon:supply-source-locator attribute</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/suppress-indentation.xml">The saxon:suppress-indentation attribute</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/xquery-method.xml">The saxon:xquery serialization method</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a class="bodylink" href="output-extras/user-defined-atts.xml">User-defined serialization attributes</a></p>
</li>
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