Entity
Interface Entity
- All Superinterfaces:
- Node
public interface Entity extends Node
This interface represents a known entity, either parsed or unparsed, in an XML document. Note that this models the entity itself not the entity declaration.
The nodeName attribute that is inherited from Node contains the name of the entity.
An XML processor may choose to completely expand entities before the structure model is passed to the DOM; in this case there will be no EntityReference nodes in the document tree.
XML does not mandate that a non-validating XML processor read and process entity declarations made in the external subset or declared in parameter entities. This means that parsed entities declared in the external subset need not be expanded by some classes of applica
