XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder AT yahoo.com>]

--- On Tue, 1/13/09, Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com> wrote:

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> Yes, it is a well-known fact that XML does not have any predefined entities
> other than the standard lt, gt, amp, quot, apos. If you want to use other
> entities you have to declare them. That seems a simple enough rule.

It sounds like perhaps the original content was not produced using actual 
XML(-aware) tools, but by string concatenation or such.
This based on the fact that the attribute values were not properly 
escaped/quoted, which would have been done by proper XML writers.
(if so, that should be one of top-5 mistakes done with xml processing)

-+ Tatu  +-