greg.emerson@autodesk.com wrote:
> 
> There seems to be no support for some named entities (e.g. <) in the latest release of Crimson (or any previous release for that matter).  According to the spec, these entities should be predefined.  Are there plans to add these named entities to the parser?

They should be defined.  Why do you think they are not?  Could you post
a sample program?

I wrote a quick junit test to verify it.

    public void testPredefinedEntities() throws Exception {
        String data = 
            "<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>" +
            "<root>&lt;&gt;&amp;&apos;&quot;</root>";
        ByteArrayInputStream in = new
ByteArrayInputStream(data.getBytes());
        Document doc = db.parse(in);
        Element root = doc.getDocumentElement();
        NodeList children = root.getChildNodes();
        assertTrue(children.getLength() == 1);
        Text textA = (Text)children.item(0);
        assertTrue(textA.getData().equals("<>&'\""));
    }


-Edwin