Interface Entity

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.

DOM Level 3 does not support editing Entity nodes; if a user wants to make changes to the contents of an Entity, every related EntityReference node has to be replaced in the structure model by a clone of the Entity's contents, and then the desired changes must be made to each of those clones instead. Entity nodes and all their descendants are readonly.

An Entity node does not have any parent.

Template arguments

interface Entity(DOMString);

Properties

Name Type Description
inputEncoding [get] DOMString An attribute specifying the encoding used for this entity at the time of parsing, when it is an external parsed entity. This is null if it an entity from the internal subset or if it is not known.
notationName [get] DOMString For unparsed entities, the name of the Notation for the entity. For parsed entities, this is null.
publicId [get] DOMString The public identifier associated with the entity if specified, and null otherwise.
systemId [get] DOMString The system identifier associated with the entity if specified, and null otherwise. This may be an absolute URI or not.
xmlEncoding [get] DOMString An attribute specifying, as part of the text declaration, the encoding of this entity, when it is an external parsed entity. This is null otherwise.
xmlVersion [get] DOMString An attribute specifying, as part of the text declaration, the version number of this entity, when it is an external parsed entity. This is null otherwise.

Authors

Lodovico Giaretta

Copyright

Copyright Lodovico Giaretta 2016 --

License

Boost License 1.0.