Re: [xml] Entity with elements inside it?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:14:27PM +0800, Bo Yang wrote:
> Hi,
>    I am now using libxml2 as my parser for XML, but I can't find a way
> to expand the elements inside an entity declaration. For example
>
> <!ENTITY ent4 "<title attr1="some">some text</title>" >
>
> And in the document, this entity is referenced as
>
> <ele> &ent4; </ele>
>
> When libxml2 parse to above, it creates a EntityRef element and pass
> the entity ent4 as a child of this EntityRef element. And the
> passed-in child has a entity->content as "<title attr1="some">some
> text</title>", but what I want is not the string , I want to parse
> this string to a DOM tree, could you please tell me how can I archieve
> this?  Thanks a lot!
>
> ps: I use xmlParseChunk to parse my file part by part. I don't think I
> can call another xmlParseChunk to parse the entity string... :)

  You need to create the parser context with XML_PARSE_NOENT option

Daniel

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