Interface IEntity
- Namespace
- SharpVectors.Dom
- Assembly
- SharpVectors.Core.dll
This interface represents an entity, either parsed or unparsed, in an XML document. Note that this models the entity itself not the entity declaration. IEntity declaration modeling has been left for a later Level of the DOM specification.
Represents an entity declaration, such as <!ENTITY... >.
public interface IEntity : INode, IXmlNode- Inherited Members
Remarks
The Name attribute that is inherited from INode 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 IEntityReference nodes in the document tree.
XML does not mandate that a non-validating XML processor read and process entity declarations made in the external subset or declared in external parameter entities. This means that parsed entities declared in the external subset need not be expanded by some classes of applications, and that the replacement value of the entity may not be available. When the replacement value is available, the corresponding IEntity node's child list represents the structure of that replacement text. Otherwise, the child list is empty.
The DOM Level 2 does not support editing IEntity nodes; if a user wants to make changes to the contents of an IEntity, every related IEntityReference node has to be replaced in the structure model by a clone of the IEntity's contents, and then the desired changes must be made to each of those clones instead. IEntity nodes and all their descendants are readonly.
An IEntity node does not have any parent. If the entity contains an unbound namespace prefix, the NamespaceURI of the corresponding node in the IEntity node subtree is null. The same is true for IEntityReference nodes that refer to this entity, when they are created using the CreateEntityReference(string) method of the IDocument interface. The DOM Level 2 does not support any mechanism to resolve namespace prefixes.
Properties
- NotationName
Gets the name of the optional NDATA attribute on the entity declaration.
For unparsed entities, the name of the notation for the entity. For parsed entities, this is null.
- PublicId
Gets the public identifier associated with the entity, if specified. If the public identifier was not specified, this is null.
- SystemId
Gets the value of system identifier associated with the entity declaration, if specified. If the system identifier was not specified, this is null.