Displaying Special Characters and CDATA

The next thing we will do with the parser is to customize it a bit so that you can see how to get information it usually ignores. In this section, you'll learn how the parser handles

  • Special characters (<, &, and so on)

  • Text with XML-style syntax

Handling Special Characters

In XML, an entity is an XML structure (or plain text) that has a name. Referencing the entity by name causes it to be inserted into the document in place of the entity reference. To create an entity reference, you surround the entity name with an ampersand and a semicolon:

&entityName;

Earlier, you put an entity reference into your XML document by coding

Market Size &lt; predicted

Note

The file containing this XML is slideSample03.xml ...

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