> Note that the XML 1.0 recommendation requires that character and
> internal entities be expanded before passing the data to the
> application.
It doesn't forbid the parser from informing the application about what
has been expanded. In an event-based API, for example, for
text &foo; text
the parser could deliver an event stream like
characters("text ")
startEntityRef("foo")
characters("entity value")
endEntityRef("foo")
characters(" text")
For normal downstream processing, this level of reporting is simply a
waste of resources, but it could be essential for authoring tools.
All the best,
David
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