& XSLT * Kevin <psxguru@[...].net>  [2006-02-27 13:30]:
> My application needs to validate xml files used in our data
> transfer process. In our dtds we have lots of entities such
> as...
> 
> <!ENTITY pti08_4 "domestic scheduled flight">
> 
> I need to preserve these entities for insertion into a database
> and for later xml creation.

Thatâ??s broken from an XML point of view.

> setting $parser->expand_entities(0); has no effect on methods
> such as getAttribute() - this will always returns the expanded
> text regardless of the expand_entities setting.

Yes, that is as it should be.

> dumping out the doc/element with toString() shows the entities
> in the document being expanded or left alone correctly as per
> the expand_entities setting.

That too is as it should be.

> Is there a best practice way to pull the unexpanded entities out?

Entities only matter in the serialised form of the document, not
in its interpretation, so the only way you have to get at them is
from the serialised form of fragments of the document. To do that
you can call `toString` on particular text or attribute nodes. On
text nodes youâ??ll get something directly usable, on attribute
nodes youâ??ll have to fudge a bit.

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> 
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