> In the DOM, these characters appear as themselves, '&' and '<' and so on, > My point is that they do _not_ appear in the text. (I was just trying to figure out where this conversion was supposed to happen in Xerces.)
Anyway, all I do is create a DOMParser, parse an XML file, get a Text node, and call getData(). The '&', '<', and so on are nowhere to be seen. - Tom Palmer
