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Processing XML with Java™: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX
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Processing XML with Java™: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX

by Elliotte Rusty Harold
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1120 pages
21h 2m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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The Entity Interface

The Entity interface represents a parsed or unparsed general entity declared in a document's DTD. (DOM does not expose parameter entities.) A map of the entities declared in a document is available from the getEntities() method of the DocumentType interface. However, entities are not part of the tree structure, and the parent of an entity is always null.

An Entity object represents the actual storage unit. It does not represent the entity reference such as Ω or &copyright; that appears in the instance document, but rather the replacement text to which that reference points. For parsed entities that the XML parser has resolved, the descendants of the Entity object form a read-only tree containing the XML markup for which ...

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