[jdom-interest] Entities in attributes

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 6:20 PM -0700 5/1/02, Jason Hunter wrote:
>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.
>

DOM parsers do worry about this. SAX parsers don't, and in fact run 
into trouble when faced with skipped entities in attribute values. 
There's a thread about this on sax-users right now.

However, since our model of an attribute value is a string, there's 
really no way for us to maintain entity references in attribute 
values, nor do I think we should. We don't maintain unskipped 
entities in element content either.
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