XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

entities: NamedNodeMap

Synopsis

This attribute provides a list of all general entities declared in the document’s DTD. If the same entity is declared more than once within a single document, only the first occurrence is preserved in this NamedNodeMap. Note that parameter entity declarations are not available through the DocumentType interface. Each member of this list implements the Entity interface. Read-only.

Java binding

public NamedNodeMap getEntities( );

Java example

// Dump the document entities
NamedNodeMap nnm = doc.getDoctype( ).getEntities( );
     
Entity ndEnt;
for (int i = 0; i < nnm.getLength( ); i++) {
    ndEnt = (Entity)(nnm.item(i));
     
    System.out.println(ndEnt.getNodeName( ));
     
    if (ndEnt.getPublicId( ) != null) {
        System.out.println("\tPublic Identifier: " +
                           ndEnt.getPublicId( ));
    }
     
    if (ndEnt.getSystemId( ) != null) {
        System.out.println("\tSystem Identifier: " +
                           ndEnt.getSystemId( ));
    }
     
    if (ndEnt.getNotationName( ) != null) {
        System.out.println("\tNotation Name: " +
                           ndEnt.getNotationName( ));
    }
}