[jdom-interest] Entity Ref

Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at metalab.unc.edu
Sat Feb 22 11:40:57 PST 2003


At 1:07 PM -0600 2/22/03, Jason Long wrote:

>I apologize if I am missing something.  It is just that it works fine if I
>manually add the entities to an xml file and read from the data from there.
>I just wish I could do this programmatically using JDOM.  I would appreciate
>any suggestions.

I understand *what* you're trying to do. I don't understand *why* 
you're trying to do it. What does

This is why I would like my jdom generated file to read as:
<item id="0" mill="&MAHA;"  />

do for you that

<item id="0" mill="New API Seamless Maharashtra"  />

doesn't? The latter is more robust and reliable in any case.
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