• To: "Daniel Shane" <shane@i...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: XML Parsers and how they handle internal entities (amp, quote, apos, etc...)
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:49:09 -0500
• References: <GMELKNHHOJAGDFELIFNPCEMLCAAA.shane@i...>

 
> I have a small question here... when an XML parser parses a document, doest
> it have to expand internal entities like ' &quote; < > and &?
> I am asking this question because expat seems to expand ' and &quote;
> but not & and it is causing me some trouble. Is this a normal behavior?

You have to give specific examples, since entity expansion
can be tricky - see
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.html#intern-replacement ,
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.html#entproc and
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.html#sec-entexpand

Karl

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