[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/30/2008 02:17:01 PM: > If you need to know entity-reference boundaries, you can get that > information by asking the parser to generate a DOM which has Entity > Reference Nodes and then looking at the children of the attribute > nodes.
Xerces-J doesn't support that. See the rationale here [1] from Andy Clark. > (I'm not sure offhand whether there's a SAX equivalent.) There isn't one. SAX has no mechanism for reporting entity reference boundaries within attribute values. > If you want to suppress the other kinds of normalization applied to > attributes, I would suggest that you don't want attributes in the > first place. Change your document design so this information is > carried by a child element. (See much past discussion -- just about > everywhere that XML is discussed! -- about when to use attributes > vs. child elements; this is one classic example where there is a > practical reason rather than just one of style.) > > ______________________________________ > "... Three things see no end: A loop with exit code done wrong, > A semaphore untested, And the change that comes along. ..." > -- "Threes" Rev 1.1 - Duane Elms / Leslie Fish (http://www.ovff. > org/pegasus/songs/threes-rev-11.html) [1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xerces-j-dev/200109.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
