- TIBCO BusinessEvents®
- Standard
- Instance

# Instance.serialize()

## Signature

`String serialize (Concept instance, boolean changedOnly, String nameSpace, String root)`

## Domain

ACTION

## Description

Serializes a Concept instance into an XML string.

## Parameters

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`instance` | `Concept` | The Concept instance to serialize.
`changedOnly` | `boolean` | ignored
`nameSpace` | `String` | The namespace for the serialized data.
`root` | `String` | The name of the root element for the serialized data.

## Returns

Type | Description
--- | ---
`String` | An XML string serialization of `instance`

## Cautions

none