[jdom-interest] SAXBuilder.setExpandEntities

Alex Rosen arosen at silverstream.com
Thu May 16 07:25:29 PDT 2002


> > When I have an XML document containing:
> >
> >    <a>b&amp;)</a>
> >
> > then I want Element.getContent() to return one
> org.jdom.Text element and 2
> > org.jdom.EntityRef objects. Is there a SAX driver that
> allows me to do this?
>
> You are confusing xml entities and character entities.
> Character entities are
> always expanded by the parser and will never become
> entityrefs in the jdom model.

It would be nice if the JavaDoc mentioned this, it's a frequent source of
confusion.

Alex




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