Martin Honnen wrote:
> 
> You need a DTD that declares the entity named 'euro'.
> Or you need to use a numeric character reference e.g.
>   €
> 
> And that has nothing to do with whether you use the entity reference in 
> an attribute or in an element, that does not matter. You need to declare 
> any entity you want to reference, with the exception of 'lt', 'gt', 
> 'quot', 'apos', 'amp'.

so, here is my problem. I use this XML file simply to hold configuration info. 
One of the strings I need to store in the config file is "€" which, 
unfortunately, happens to be an XML entity and have special meaning for XML and 
XML parsers.

I tried:

<elem name="entity_euro" value="<![CDATA[&euro;]]>"/>

but it does not work.

I can work this around outside of XML by using a different expression and having 
Java re-build the entity string:

<elem name="entity_euro" value="amp_euro;"/>

before I do it, though, I would like to hear whether there is a better (and more 
elegant!) way, because my heart cries when I see XML suck so bad. :)

Luca