Gets or sets a value that specifies how the reader handles entities.
(in System.Xml.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public Property EntityHandling As EntityHandling
Dim instance As XmlTextReader
Dim value As EntityHandling
value = instance.EntityHandling
instance.EntityHandling = value
public EntityHandling EntityHandling { get; set; }
public:
property EntityHandling EntityHandling {
EntityHandling get ();
void set (EntityHandling value);
}
public function get EntityHandling () : EntityHandling
public function set EntityHandling (value : EntityHandling)
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In the .NET Framework version 2.0 release, the recommended practice is to create XmlReader instances using the XmlReader..::.Create method. This allows you to take full advantage of the new features introduced in this release. For more information, see Creating XML Readers. |
This property can be changed on the fly and takes effect after the next Read call.
When EntityHandling is set to ExpandCharEntities, attribute values are only partially normalized. The reader normalizes each individual text node independently from the content of adjacent entity reference nodes.
To illustrate the difference between the entity handling modes consider the following XML:
<!DOCTYPE doc [<!ENTITY num "123">]>
<doc> A # </doc>
When EntityHandling is set to ExpandEntities the "doc" element node contains one text node with the expanded entity text:
Depth | Node type | Name | Value |
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1 |
Text
| | A 123 |
When EntityHandling is set to ExpandCharEntites, and WhitespaceHandling is set to Significant or All, the "doc" element expands the character entity and returns the general entity as a node:
Depth | Node type | Name | Value |
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1 |
Text
| | A |
1 |
EntityReference
| num | |
1 |
SignificantWhitespace
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The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
.NET Framework
Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0
.NET Compact Framework
Supported in: 3.5, 2.0
XNA Framework
Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.0
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