Re: [xml] DOM Parser + entities

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:18:06PM +0200, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com] 
> > Sent: Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003 17:18
> > To: Murray Cumming Comneon com
> > > The entity reference node types are XML_ENTITY_REF_NODE, and, from 
> > > looking at the source code, the nodes seem to be plain xmlNodes and 
> > > don't need to be casted to any other struct type.
> > >
> > > So, 2 questions:
> > > 1. What useful things can I discover about this node other than the 
> > > name? Maybe nothing. I'm clueless.
> >
> >   Well an entity REF points though content to an entity DECL, 
> > see xmlEntityPtr / struct _xmlEntity , after the usual 
> > navigation fields you will find
>
> Thanks. Does that mean that I should cast the xmlNode* (of type
> XML_ENTITY_REF_NODE) to an xmlEntity* ?

  For a reference, no, the only field used are name, content and
the navigation stuff, no cast should be needed.

Daniel

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