RE: [xml-dev] Internal entities removed from XML?

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

Yes, extra steps are needed to parse entities. The following code shows the two extra lines of code needed to enable entity expanding in the DOM 
 
using System;
using System.Xml; 

public class EntitiesTest
{
  
   public static void Main() {       
     
     XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); 
 
#if ENTITY_HANDLING 
     XmlValidatingReader vr = new XmlValidatingReader(new XmlTextReader("entities.xml")); 
     vr.ValidationType = ValidationType.None;
     doc.Load(vr);
#else 
     doc.Load("entities.xml"); 
#endif
 
     Console.WriteLine(doc.OuterXml);
  }
}

I remember asking about this a while ago and the answer  was related to last minute code changes for perf reasons. 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@xegesis.org] 
	Sent: Thu 12/19/2002 6:30 AM 
	To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org 
	Cc: 
	Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Internal entities removed from XML?
	
	

	On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 06:16:34 -0800, Dare Obasanjo <dareo@microsoft.com>
	wrote:
	
	> Mike, We have a bug which caused the behavior Doug Ransom saw. Please do
	> not treat a bug in one of our implementations of an XML parser as
	> indicative of any imagined Microsoft position towards the W3C XML 1.0
	> recommendation.
	
	I have come to understand in the course of this thread that the original
	point was about a bug rather than a feature   Thanks for the clarification.
	
	What about the assertion that the some extra setup is needed to parse
	entities?  Is that my misunderstanding of the "bug" or a "feature"?
	
	But once again, I don't want to tie my argument here to what MS does or
	does not do, nor to malign them by association with a position that is
	obviously unpopular! 
	
	
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