Re: Passing through predefined entities

[Boris Kolpackov <bo...@codesynthesis.com>]

Hi Jeff,

Jeff Wolkenhauer <je...@gmail.com> writes:

> I've done a lot of looking at the API and Googling.  I've tried setting my
> handler as the LexicalHandler and implementing startEntity and endEntity,
> but those methods never get called.

These are not called for built-in entities such as &amp;, &lt;, etc.


> Grasping at straws, I've tried
>   parser->setFeature(XMLUni::fgXercesDisableDefaultEntityResolution, true);

This is for external resource resolution (which are also called entities).

 
> Is there a way to have the parser leave the predefined entities
> untranslated?

I don't think there is a way. Your best bet is probably to escape them
back before passing the data on.

Boris

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