Can anyone explain how character entities are handled in the DOM? I have a documents with many character entities (some are > < or ", others are in a dtd). When the document is loaded to the DOM, the entities seem to be translated. Why? and can this be stopped? The documents are part of a repository where they are edited and maintained. When they are finally extracted for publishing, the translation of the entity needs to be governed by the output format, so it would seem logical to me to keep the entities as entities until the document is being prepared (and the data formatted) for publication.
Steve Carton 703/749-0012 www.retrievalsystems.com
