Hello.
I'm experiencing some unexpected (at least to me) behavior with entity
references in attributes. After parsing, entity references in attributes
appear to be dropped, leaving only the value of the entity. For example,
starting with the DOM3 class from the samples in the Xerces 2.9.0
distribution, I added the line
config.setParameter("entities", Boolean.TRUE);
just before the call to parseURI(). Then if I run with the modified
personal.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE personnel SYSTEM "personal.dtd" [
<!ENTITY name "Big">
<!ENTITY one "1">
]>
<personnel>
<person id="Big.Boss" salary="&one;">
<name><family>Boss</family> <given>&name;</given></name>
<email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email>
</person>
</personnel>
The results I get are:
Parsing data/personal.xml...
Normalizing document...
Serializing document...
<!DOCTYPE personnel SYSTEM "personal.dtd" [<!ENTITY name 'Big'>
<!ENTITY one '1'>
]>
<personnel>
<person id="Big.Boss" salary="1">
<name><family>Boss</family> <given>&name;</given></name>
<email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email>
</person>
</personnel>
While the "name" entity reference remains, the "one" entity reference has
been lost, replaced by the value of the entity. Is this behavior expected?
A bug? Configurable?
Any insight is greatly appreciated.
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Kevin Froese
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