Re: Re[2]: Entity parsing

[Peter R. <php...@pe...>]

On Friday 24 May 2002 10:44, Sam Blum wrote:
> Assuming we would let expat parse the entity in the sample below
>   <!ENTITY ourname "Perfect Programmers&gt;">
>   &lt;&ourname;
>
> and would generate a file with one of the export-functions of Php.XPath the
> result would be:
>   <!ENTITY ourname "Perfect Programmers>">
>   <Perfect Programmers>
>
> All defined entities (plus the 5 xml entities) have been replaces and any
> changes to  <!ENTITY ourname "Perfect Programmers"> in the exported file
> would have *no effect* any more! Even worse the &lt; and &gt; have been
> replaced too!

ok, so this means if you are importing/parsing in order to change/rewrite the 
file, then you don't want entities parsed (treat & as &amp;); if for 
outputing to some other medium such as html, then you do. So . . . can we 
have it switchable please, passing over a y/n parameter to the import 
functions.