[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/30/2008 05:53:51 PM:

>
> > > If you need to know entity-reference boundaries, you can get that
> > > information by asking the parser to generate a DOM which has Entity
> > > Reference Nodes and then looking at the children of the attribute
> > > nodes.
> >
> > Xerces-J doesn't support that. See the rationale here [1] from Andy
Clark.
>
> Beg pardon? There's a long-standing Feature for the DOM parser,
> create-entity-ref-nodes, which toggles this... and in fact, the
> documentation says it defaults to true.
>
> Are you confused, or is the documentation out of date?

That feature only has an effect on entity references which appear in
element content. Xerces has no support [1][2] for preserving entity
references in attribute values.

[1] http://marc.info/?t=117027061700003&r=1&w=2
[2] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1225

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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