Serialize Component

Name: [p:]serialize

Description:

The seriailze component replaces each child of the document element with its
serialization.  The child items that are not character items are converted
into character items by this component.  This effectively "escapes" the
XML content.

Inputs:

   source:  A single document.
       The input document containing the XML to escape.

Outputs:

   result:  A single document.
       The result of the serialization with the children of the document
element
       replaced with their serialization.

[ed note: we might want serialization controls here as parameters]

-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics