RE: resolving entities

[Mike Brown <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> does anyone know of any simple way to resolve &, <, >, or other entity
> characters inside of an xml document?
> 
> for example:
> 
> <Company>
>      <Name>Foobar & Goobar</Name>
> </Company>

That wouldn't be entity resolution. You have to have an entity before you
can resolve it. What you want is called "cleanup" :) Do it by hand. There's
no easy way for a parser to read the document and know for sure that an
instance of the &, <, or > characters are intended to be just those
characters, or markup. That's why you should make sure that any data you're
putting into a PCDATA section has those characters properly encoded as
entity references.


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