Java XML Parsing: Avoid entity reference resolution

Question

I am currently parsing XHTML documents with a DOM parser, like:

final DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dbf.setValidating(fa         


        

Answer 1

The approach I took was to replace any entities with a unique marker that is treated as plain text by Xerces. Once converted into a Document object, the markers are replaced with Entity Reference objects.

See the convertStringToDocument() function in http://sourceforge.net/p/commonclasses/code/14/tree/trunk/src/com/redhat/ecs/commonutils/XMLUtilities.java