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+import { encodeEntities, styleObjToCss, assign, getChildren } from './util';
+import { options } from 'preact';
+
+const VOID_ELEMENTS = /^(area|base|br|col|embed|hr|img|input|link|meta|param|source|track|wbr)$/;
+
+const UNSAFE_NAME = /[\s\n\\/='"\0<>]/;
+
+/**
+ * Render Preact JSX + Components to an HTML string.
+ * @param {import('preact').VNode} vnode	A Virtual DOM element to render.
+ */
+export default function (vnode) {
+	// Cheap output buffer. It's a passed-by-reference "pointer" to the work-in-progress output string.
+	// In the future, this object could also hold additional properties for the render root.
+	const p = { s: '' };
+	renderVNode(vnode, {}, null, p);
+	return p.s;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Render a Virtual DOM element (of any kind) to HTML.
+ * @param {import('preact').VNode|string|number|Array<import('preact').VNode|string|number>} any renderable value
+ * @param {object} context (forks throughout the tree)
+ * @param {any} the current select value, passed down through the tree to set <options selected>
+ * @param {{ s: string }} A "string buffer" object, for passing around references to the WIP output string "s".
+ */
+function renderVNode(vnode, context, selectValue, p) {
+	let vnodeType = typeof vnode;
+
+	if (vnodeType === 'undefined' || vnodeType === 'boolean' || vnode === null) {
+		return;
+	}
+
+	// wrap array nodes in Fragment
+	if (vnodeType === 'object') {
+		if (Array.isArray(vnode)) {
+			let children = [];
+			getChildren(children, vnode);
+			for (let i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
+				renderVNode(children[i], context, selectValue, p);
+			}
+			return;
+		}
+	}
+	else {
+		p.s += encodeEntities(vnode);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	let nodeName = vnode.type,
+		props = vnode.props;
+
+	context = context || {};
+
+	// components
+	if (typeof nodeName === 'function') {
+		// if (nodeName===Fragment) {
+		// 	let rendered = '';
+		// 	let children = [];
+		// 	getChildren(children, vnode.props.children);
+		// 	for (let i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
+		// 		rendered += renderToString(children[i], context, selectValue);
+		// 	}
+		// 	return rendered;
+		// }
+
+		let rendered;
+
+		let c = vnode.__c = { __v: vnode, context, props: vnode.props, __h: [] };
+
+		// options.render
+		if (options.__r) options.__r(vnode);
+
+		let cxType = nodeName.contextType;
+		let provider = cxType && context[cxType.__c];
+		let cctx = cxType != null ? (provider ? provider.props.value : cxType.__) : context;
+
+		if (!('prototype' in nodeName) || !('render' in nodeName.prototype)) {
+			// Necessary for createContext api. Setting this property will pass
+			// the context value as `this.context` just for this component.
+
+			// stateless functional components
+			rendered = nodeName.call(c, props, cctx);
+		}
+		else {
+			c = vnode.__c = new nodeName(props, cctx);
+			c.__v = vnode;
+			// turn off stateful re-rendering:
+			c._dirty = c.__d = true;
+			c.props = props;
+			if (c.state==null) c.state = {};
+
+			if (c._nextState==null && c.__s==null) {
+				c._nextState = c.__s = c.state;
+			}
+
+			c.context = cctx;
+			if ('getDerivedStateFromProps' in nodeName) {
+				c.state = assign(assign({}, c.state), nodeName.getDerivedStateFromProps(c.props, c.state));
+			}
+			else if ('componentWillMount' in c) {
+				c.componentWillMount();
+			}
+
+			// If the user called setState in cWM we need to flush pending,
+			// state updates. This is the same behaviour in React.
+			c.state = c._nextState !== c.state
+				? c._nextState : c.__s!==c.state
+					? c.__s : c.state;
+
+			rendered = c.render(c.props, c.state, c.context);
+		}
+
+		if ('getChildContext' in c) {
+			context = assign(assign({}, context), c.getChildContext());
+		}
+
+		renderVNode(rendered, context, selectValue, p);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	if (UNSAFE_NAME.test(nodeName)) return;
+
+
+	// let s = '<';
+	p.s += '<';
+	p.s += nodeName;
+	let html;
+	// s += nodeName;
+
+	if (props) {
+		if (nodeName === 'option' && selectValue === props.value) {
+			p.s += ' selected';
+		}
+
+		for (let name in props) {
+			let v = props[name];
+			let type;
+			if (name === 'children' || name === 'key' || name === 'ref' || UNSAFE_NAME.test(name)) {
+				// skip
+			}
+			else if (nodeName === 'select' && name === 'value') {
+				selectValue = v;
+			}
+			else if (name === 'dangerouslySetInnerHTML') {
+				html = v && v.__html;
+			}
+			else if ((v || v===0) && (type = typeof v) !== 'function') {
+				if (name === 'style' && type === 'object') {
+					v = styleObjToCss(v);
+				}
+				else if (name.substring(0,5) === 'xlink') {
+					// this doesn't actually need to be limited to SVG, since attributes "xlinkHref" are invalid anyway
+					name = name.replace(/^xlink([A-Z])/, 'xlink:$1');
+				}
+				p.s += ' ';
+				p.s += name;
+				if (v !== true && v !== '') {
+					p.s += '="';
+					p.s += encodeEntities(v);
+					p.s += '"';
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	let isVoid = VOID_ELEMENTS.test(nodeName);
+	if (isVoid) {
+		p.s += ' />';
+	}
+	else {
+		p.s += '>';
+	}
+
+	if (html) {
+		p.s += html;
+	}
+	else if (props && props.children) {
+		renderVNode(props.children, context, selectValue, p);
+	}
+
+	if (!isVoid) {
+		p.s += '</';
+		p.s += nodeName;
+		p.s += '>';
+	}
+}