NewBie: How do I prevent &null; substitution

[Brad Foster]

How do I prevent apache xerces parser from substituting a &null; with a "".

This is what I am doing currently....

DOMParser myparser = new DOMParser();

myparser
..setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/dom/create-entity-ref-nodes",
false);

myparser
..setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/dom/include-ignorable-whitespace
", false);

myparser .setFeature ("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces", false);

myparser .setFeature ("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", false);

myparser .parse (new InputSource(new FileInputStream(fileName)));

document = myparser .getDocument ();



When I try to get a value of an attribute which has &null; it seems to be
substituting it with a ""

 

[Richard Tobin]

How do I prevent apache xerces parser from substituting a &null; with a "".

If &null; is a reference to an internal entity there may well be no
way to do it, since the XML spec requires internal entity references
to be replaced. You should not expect to be able to distinguish
an entity reference from the same text without an entity reference.

-- Richard