[XML-SIG] How to leave character entities alone

[Uche Ogbuji]

> I'm using the DOM from PyXML 0.6.5 to manipulate documents with the Text
> Encoding Initiative DTD (teixlite.dtd).  But all of the character
> entities, like – and ;, vanish into thin air when read into a
> DOM object. I've tried with minidom and 4DOM; I've tried with validation
> under 4DOM (where it gags on the DTD itself, which will probably be the
> subject of my next frantic query) and without; I've tried all the standard
> readers (please tell me I don't have to build my own).  I'm obviously
> thrashing around clueless.

There was a bug in 4DOM where entities weren't being handled properly, but 
this should now be sorted out.

If you can provide a test case, I'll double-check that this is the case.


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