factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false) bug?

[Adam Jenkins <aj...@infocomp.com>]

Hi, just wanted to check if this is a bug.

In the crimson library, when I run the following code, The output is 7 (a
mixture of EntityReference and Text objects -- as I would expect because the
Entity objects haven't been resolved)....however when I run it in xerces,
the output is 1 (one text object).

Shouldn't entities all be handled the same regardless of whether they're
escaping special characters?  (i.e. isn't that just a special case of
entity?).

When setting 'setExpandEntityReferences(true)'....crimson and xerces both
output 1.



<snip>

		final DocumentBuilderFactory factory =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
		factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
		final String myDatabaseString =
"&lt;test-element&gt;somedata&lt;/test-element&gt;";
		final String testString = "<dummy-root-element>" +
myDatabaseString + "</dummy-root-element>";
		final Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(new
ByteArrayInputStream(testString.getBytes()));
		final Element dummyRootElement =
(Element)doc.getFirstChild();
	
System.out.println(dummyRootElement.getChildNodes().getLength());

</snip>

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