<h2>org.autoplot.state.SerializeUtil</h2><p>Utility class for creating a Document from a DomNode.  Note that there is special
 handling for:<ul>
 <li>controller -- these nodes are dropped.
 <li>class -- this is noise from java.
 <li>*Automatically -- properties ending in "Automatically" are used to set another property.
 </ul>
 There may be other exceptional properties that are not documented here.</p>
<h2>SerializeUtil( )</h2>
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<h2>getDomElement</h2>
getDomElement( <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/w3c/dom/Document.html'>org.w3c.dom.Document</a> document, <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/autoplot/dom/DomNode.html'>org.autoplot.dom.DomNode</a> node, <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/autoplot/state/VapScheme.html'>org.autoplot.state.VapScheme</a> scheme ) &rarr; <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/w3c/dom/Element.html'>org.w3c.dom.Element</a>

<p>Return the XML for the node.</p>

<h3>Parameters</h3>
document - the document to which the node is added.
<br>
node - the dom node (Application, Plot, PlotElement, etc.)
<br>
scheme - the version of the vap that we are writing.  This identifies the scheme, but also provides names for nodes.

<h3>Returns:</h3>
the Document (XML) element for the node.
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getDomElement( <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/w3c/dom/Document.html'>org.w3c.dom.Document</a> document, <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/autoplot/dom/DomNode.html'>org.autoplot.dom.DomNode</a> node, <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/autoplot/state/VapScheme.html'>org.autoplot.state.VapScheme</a> scheme, boolean includeDefaults ) &rarr; <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/w3c/dom/Element.html'>org.w3c.dom.Element</a><br>
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<h2>getDomNode</h2>
getDomNode( <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/w3c/dom/Element.html'>org.w3c.dom.Element</a> element, <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/autoplot/state/VapScheme.html'>org.autoplot.state.VapScheme</a> scheme ) &rarr; <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/autoplot/dom/DomNode.html'>org.autoplot.dom.DomNode</a>

<p>decode the DomNode from the document element.</p>

<h3>Parameters</h3>
element - the DOM element
<br>
scheme - the current version

<h3>Returns:</h3>
an org.autoplot.dom.DomNode

<br><br>
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<h2>getElementForLeafNode</h2>
getElementForLeafNode( <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/w3c/dom/Document.html'>org.w3c.dom.Document</a> document, <a href='https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html'>java.lang.Class</a> propClass, <a href='https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html'>Object</a> value, <a href='https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html'>Object</a> defltValue ) &rarr; <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/w3c/dom/Element.html'>org.w3c.dom.Element</a>

<p>return the Element, or null if we can't handle it</p>

<h3>Parameters</h3>
document - a Document
<br>
propClass - a java.lang.Class
<br>
value - an Object
<br>
defltValue - an Object

<h3>Returns:</h3>
an org.w3c.dom.Element

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<h2>getLeafNode</h2>
getLeafNode( <a href='http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~jbf/autoplot/doc/org/w3c/dom/Element.html'>org.w3c.dom.Element</a> element ) &rarr; <a href='https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html'>Object</a>

<p></p>

<h3>Parameters</h3>
element - an Element

<h3>Returns:</h3>
java.lang.Object

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