> I deal with a lot of real-world user-entered data and am sick 
> of seeing xml  errors about entities

Tell me about it.

Well, here's the rule. There are only five *named* entities you can use
in XML: 

  &
  <
  >
  "
  '

if you've got anything else that's non-numeric, it's going to cause an
error. So, where are these other entities coming from?

One valid but unhelpful answer is "you haven't really got XML", because
if it's not well-formed and, if applicable, valid, you've just got
another kind of tag soup. So, how is this "XML" entering your system if
it's not really XML?

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