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Posted to j-users@xerces.apache.org by Anthony Rabaa <ar...@amconresearch.net> on 2003/07/15 19:45:06 UTC
SAX Parser & Entity Expansion
Hello,
I'm using a SAX parser to scan incoming XML and for select structures,
build a DOM for manipulation. I've run into a little snag when it comes
to the incoming entities being expanded into thier characters and I was
wondering if somebody could tell me what property or feature would
disable entity expansion?
A good example is <para><graphic></para> in the SAX parser funnels
into the DOM builder as <para><graphic></para> which throws a parser
error. The EntityResolver class is for external entities so the SAX
parser will not relay the requests to it. Thanks in advance for your help!
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*Anthony Rabaa*
Software Developer
AMCon Research Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
http://www.amconresearch.com
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Re: SAX Parser & Entity Expansion
Posted by Andy Clark <an...@apache.org>.
Anthony Rabaa wrote:
> I'm using a SAX parser to scan incoming XML and for select structures,
> build a DOM for manipulation. I've run into a little snag when it comes
> to the incoming entities being expanded into thier characters and I was
> wondering if somebody could tell me what property or feature would
> disable entity expansion?
>
> A good example is <para><graphic></para> in the SAX parser funnels
> into the DOM builder as <para><graphic></para> which throws a parser
> error. The EntityResolver class is for external entities so the SAX
> parser will not relay the requests to it. Thanks in advance for your help!
Conformant XML parsers will always expand those entities
out to their text value. While you can't turn this off,
Xerces does have a feature that controls whether the
parser reports these built-in entity refs. Then you can
write a SAX filter that looks for the start/end of these
entities and pass them through to the output in their un-
expanded form while ignoring the expanded content.
Does that make sense?
Take a look in the documentation under "Features" to find
the setting(s) that you want to turn on.
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Andy Clark * andyc@apache.org
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