android DOM parsing with entities in tags

Question

I might like to parse the following XML that contains entrities.

Answer 1

CDATA usage is never necessary; so that's neither problem or a solution. But how do you actually tell there is no text? It is quite possible that you just have multiple adjacent text nodes -- underlying parsers often return multiple text segements (and esp. when there are entities). You can use a DOM method to "normalize" text content that an Element contains, to replace adjacent Text nodes with just a single one. But without this you should never assume all text is within the first (and only) Text node.

If there are no nodes, it is possible that the parser Android bundles is buggy. I think they include an old version of xpp or something, and it might have issues (compared to more polished parsers like Xerces or Woodstox). But I would first make sure it's not just case of "hidden" nodes.