Function: serializeScript()

serializeScript(message): string

Serialize a parsed ScriptMessage back to canonical NCPDP SCRIPT XML. The conservative (emit) half of Postel's Law: it walks the model faithfully and never warns. Only the modeled fields are emitted: SCRIPT is a lossy structural read, so a value the parser does not surface cannot be reproduced; this is the honest round-trip contract.

The output is canonical, not byte-identical to the input: namespace prefixes and wrapper elements the parser flattens (e.g. <HumanPatient>) are dropped, and indentation is normalized. Serializing is idempotent: serialize(parse(serialize(m))) equals serialize(m). Values are XML-escaped; because the XXE-safe loader does not resolve entities, a value carrying a raw <, >, or & survives only when it was entity-free to begin with (the synthetic corpus is).

Parameters

message

ScriptMessage

A parsed message from "./parse".parseScript.

Returns

string

The canonical SCRIPT XML string.

Example

import { parseScript, serializeScript } from "@cosyte/ncpdp/script";
const xml = serializeScript(parseScript(raw));
parseScript(xml); // re-parses cleanly