How to have HTML entities in a XML element

[Srikkanth Mohan]

Hello,
I have been using XMLBeans for parsing xml documents. It works fine but when i have HTML entities like ® © there is a parsing error in the document. I tried to modify the type of the element to CDATA but then the HTML entities are changed and & is replaced with & so it doesn't render right on the page.

  

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<test:testSummary xmlns:test="http://someurl">
      <test:Name> ® some text</testName>
</test:testSummary>
  

This is error which i have been getting org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The entity "reg" was referenced, but not declared.

Thanks
Srikkanth

[Paul Clapham]

XML knows nothing about HTML entities, so by using them, you make the document not well-formed.

Your best option is to not use them. Instead, use the corresponding XML character entities. Another alternative is to provide the document with a DTD which defines all of the entities you plan to use. But really I think it's better not to speak XML with an HTML accent.