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Parsed and Unparsed Entities

In XML, entities are split into two distinct categories: parsed and unparsed. A parsed entity, sometimes referred to as a text entity, becomes part of the XML document after it's examined and processed. Examples of parsed entities include the predefined entities that you examined in the previous exercises. The text is first processed, and then the results are added to the XML document.

An unparsed entity may or may not be text, but even if it is, it isn't made part of the XML document. An example of such an entity is a binary image file. The file isn't parsed or interpreted by the XML processor, but is translated by the appropriate visualization tool.

Note

The default form for data in an XML file is parsed.

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