[jdom-interest] Entities in attributes

Jason Hunter jhunter at acm.org
Wed May 1 18:20:18 PDT 2002


Parsers hand it to JDOM that way.  I recall they do that even if you
turn entity expansion off.  We decided if no parsers worry about entity
refs in attribute values, we didn't need to.

-jh-

Paul Reeves wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I can't get JDOM to leave entities in attributes alone - it converts them
> back to their value specified in the dtd:
> 
> for example
> 
> if the entity &abc; is set to in the DTD to the value '10':
> 
> <doc>
> <value="somevalue&abc;">123</value>
> </doc>
> 
> when sent through the XMLOutputter is converted to
> 
> <doc>
> <value="somevalue10">123</value>
> </doc>
> 
> I've looked at the outputter and can't seem to find
> a way of disabling this conversion - can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Paul
> 
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