Why "EntityReference not supported for WBXML" ?

"Bogdan Onoiu" <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:19:55 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.java.enhydra.kxml
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Hi Stefan,

Do you have any reasons why you don't support EntityReferences in the
WBXMLSerializer?

More specific:

    public void entityRef(String er) {
        throw new RuntimeException("EntityReference not supported for
WBXML" + er);
    }

The XML I try to encode has escaped sequences like eg:

&lt;font face="Helvetica" size="12"&gt;

In principle we can put back chars like "<" in the outgoing WBXML stream
coz they are sort of "legal" char in WBXML, rite?

What is your view on this? Where should this logic reside?
entityReference method?

In a 2001 email I saw:
http://kxml.enhydra.org/project/mailingLists/kxml/msg00078.html

But this method seems to have disappeared.

Please advice,

Bogdan