I see what you mean. I'm actually not interested in exactly how the
sequence is represented - whether it's &, &, &, or
<![CDATA[&]]> - but I do need to know that a special character has been
found.
& might be treated as being the same as &, but these are both
distinct from ordinary text. When the parser encounters the string
"foobar", it returns a String containing "foobar", but when it finds the
string "&" it returns a string containing "&".
What I need is to be notified that this tranlslation has occurred, or
that it is about to occur.
Is this possible?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as XML is concerned, numeric character references are identical
to the characters they represent. The XML APIs shouldn't make any
distinction.
For implementation reasons, you *may* find that SAX delivers these as
separate characters() events. But that is not guaranteed.
No XML application should ever care whether your document contains
&, &, &, or <![CDATA[&]]>... so I'd suggest that if you
think you need this information, your design is probably broken and
should be reconsidered.
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