[dbunit-user] Follow-up: Entities are ignored

[Mike B. <MBr...@go...>]

I'm still looking for an answer to the question posed in the attached =
post.  I often have data that in used in many test cases and I would =
like to avoid the maintainence headache of including it redudantly in =
the dataset XML file for every test case that needs it.  One nice way to =
avoid the headache would be to put the common data into a separate XML =
file and include it in the dataset XML for each test case.  However, the =
XML parser used by DBUnit does not appear to support this.  See the =
attached post.

Mike
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 The XML parser used by DbUnit ignores entity references.  For example, =
the
 following code does not produce an error:
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 <?xml version=3D"1.0" encoding=3D"UTF-8"?>
 <dataset>
     &thisEntityDoesNotExist;
 </dataset>
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 Nor does the following document produce the results I am expecting:
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 <?xml version=3D"1.0" encoding=3D"UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE dataset [<!ENTITY commonStuff SYSTEM "./commonStuff .xml">]>
 <dataset>
     &commonStuff ;
 </dataset>
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 Instead of pulling in the contents of commonStuff.xml, it simply =
ignores the
 entity reference.
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 Someone please tell me a simple way to fix this if there is one.
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 Mike