That's what I was afraid of. Oh well.
Joe >>setExpandEntities is a DOM thing, right? >> > >Not DOM Level 2; it might be in Level 3 (haven't checked recently) or in >the Xerces DOM-builder... > >>It can't do anything about entities in attributes, because >>it doesn't know that they are happening. >> > >The DOM permits EntityReference nodes in the content of Attributes. Xerces >always completely flattens entity references in Attributes. > >The DOM permits EntityReferences elsewhere to be expanded, or flattened, as >the XML processor sees fit. The setExpandEntities hint indicates a user >preference. But it's fairly common for parsers to fully expand the built-in >entities such as > (treating them as if they were the numeric character >references they stand for) even when not expanding other entities. > >I don't know enough about Xerces-C to know whether this is controllable, >but it isn't entirely unreasonable. > >If you want an ampersand in your text, then yes, the right answer is to >escape it via &. If you just want an unexpanded EntityReference to a >built-in entity... the parser may not go there; you may have to convert >back from the expanded version. > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
