[jdom-interest] XMLOutputter and entities in <!DOCTYPE>

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 5:48 PM +0200 7/13/00, Gabor Greif wrote:
>It looks like DOCTYPE declarations as outputted by XMLOutputter do not yet
>contain the entities that were contained in the original xml document (as
>read in with SAXBuilder).
>
>Is this an oversight or an intensional omission?
>

It's at least deliberate from the point of view of XMLOutputter. JDOM 
doesn't really keep track of entity or any other declarations. Before 
JDOM gets to work with a document all the parsed entities are 
resolved. If you output the entire document, then it should be intact 
thought the entities will have been replaced by their replacement 
text.

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