Even if Xerces internally tracked entity boundaries within attribute values
there would be no way to report this information to you through SAX [1].
Only the normalized value [2] of an attribute is exposed. In other words,
the entity references will have been replaced before your ContentHandler
re
When I parse xml with an entity refererence in an attribute to a DOM
tree, I am not able to serialize the xml back to the original content.
The question of retaining this references has been asked before in
this forum and I am aware that this is not supported by xerces.
But it is possble to che