Re: [xml] xmlSubstituteEntitiesDefault problems

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 09:46:45PM +0100, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
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> Hello,
> I need to parse the first document leaving all entities in place,
> so I call
> xmlSubstituteEntitiesDefault(0);
> parse_first_doc();
[...]
> but for some reason, the entities (most notably <) of the first
> doc
> get replaced through their human readable chars. What did I
> misunderstand?

  predefined character entities are automatically replaced, as well as
numeric character references. Replacing them with entities nodes doesn't
really make sense.

> Further, am I right assuming that if I filter a string through
> xmlEncodeEntities() then it should be perfectly valid as content?

  Hum, yes it should, but xmlEncodeEntities is deprecated use
xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant()

> What
> if I haven't got a doc to call it upon at that time? Create an empty
> one?

  xmlEncodeEntitiesReentrant() with the first arg set to NULL should
still work.

Daniel

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