Hi,

I am developing an application using the SAX interface provided by
"xerces-j 2.6.0". My application does not need a DTD for execution as
it is not supposed to perform any validation. I have to provide
customized entity processing for which I have implemented the
startEntity function of the LexicalHandler interface. The problem that
I am facing is with respect to any entity other than the 5 builtin
ones. If any entity for example &abcd; which is not a built-in entity
is specified in the content of any element then it gets successfully
processed using the customized entity resolution provided in the
startEntity function, but if the same entity occurs in the value of an
attribute then it is not getting processed. In such cases the
startEntity function is also not getting called. On looking up the
value of the attribute in the startElement callback, I found that the
entity is not being passed on instead it is being consumed. Only the
five built-in entites if they are present are returned back in the
call-back.

I would be grateful if anybody can suggest a solution for this
peculiar problem.

Thankx,
Vineeth