XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Luca Passani wrote:
> Hi, I just figured that XML is touchy about using entities in attribute 
> value even for super-simple XML files with no DTD:
>
>          <capability name="entity_euro" value="&euro;"/>
>
> Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The entity "euro" was 
> referenced, but
>  not declared.
>         at 
> org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.j
> ava:1189)
>         at nu.xom.Builder.build(Builder.java:1127)
>
>
> is there a standard way to escape entities in XML?

Use a numeric character reference or the actual character.

Without a DTD how would you expect the XML parser to know what &euro; 
represents?


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