[Expat-discuss] external entities

[Karl Waclawek]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GoochRules!" <goochrules at hotmail.com>
To: <expat-discuss at libexpat.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 5:17 PM


> Greetings,
> 
> I have an XML document that contains &quot;s and &amp;s within 
> attribute nodes that seem to be converted to "s and &s by the time they 
> get to my start element handler.

That is how it is supposed to work.
 
> Is there any way to avoid this?  My current solution is to check every 
> attribute value returned by expat and to undo the conversion.  It 
> appears that through the use of the XML_*ExternalEntity* functions I 
> can stop the conversion, but I have been unable to figure out how to 
> properly use these functions.

No, these are internal entities, you can't easily turn their expansion off.
Check the docs on SetDefaultHandler and SetDefaultHandlerExpand.
Maybe these can help you.

Karl