Attribute values with unresolved entities

I thought David Brownell had fixed this at some point, but  don't see 
anything about it in the docs. Consider this document:

<!DOCTYPE root SYSTEM "http://www.example.com/DTD/example.dtd">
<root name="data&entity; some more data"/>

Now consider this document being parsed by a parser that *does not read 
the external DTD subset*
What should such a parser report for the attribute value? It can't call 
skippedEntity(). It's got to return a string or maybe throw an exception.

This is not a theoretical question. I have run into this one myself. 
Xerces, I think, simply drops the entity and anything it reference, but 
I really don't like that.

I don't see a clean solution here. Suggestions are appreciated, but I 
think we do need to address this case in the JavaDocs. I think I'm 
leaning toward throwing an exception, but others may feel differently.

--
Elliotte Rusty Harold




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