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XML DOM: Entity Object

An Entity object does not have any parent node, and all its successor nodes are read-only.

Entity interface represents a known entity, either parsed or unparsed, in an XML document. The nodeName attribute that is inherited from Node contains the name of the entity.

Properties

PropertyDescription
inputEncodingThis specifies the encoding used by the external parsed entity. Its value is null if it is an entity from the internal subset or if it is not known.
notationNameFor an unparsed entities, it gives the name of the notation and its value is null for the parsed entities.
publicIdIt gives the name of the public identifier associated with the entity.
systemIdIt gives the name of the system identifier associated with the entity.
xmlEncodingIt gives the xml encoding included as a part of the text declaration for the external parsed entity, null otherwise.
xmlVersionIt gives the xml version included as a part of the text declaration for the external parsed entity, null otherwise.

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