public interface EntityReference extends Node
EntityReference nodes may be used to represent an entity
 reference in the tree. Note that character references and references to
 predefined entities are considered to be expanded by the HTML or XML
 processor so that characters are represented by their Unicode equivalent
 rather than by an entity reference. Moreover, the XML processor may
 completely expand references to entities while building the
 Document, instead of providing EntityReference
 nodes. If it does provide such nodes, then for an
 EntityReference node that represents a reference to a known
 entity an Entity exists, and the subtree of the
 EntityReference node is a copy of the Entity
 node subtree. However, the latter may not be true when an entity contains
 an unbound namespace prefix. In such a case, because the namespace prefix
 resolution depends on where the entity reference is, the descendants of
 the EntityReference node may be bound to different namespace
 URIs. When an EntityReference node represents a reference to
 an unknown entity, the node has no children and its replacement value,
 when used by Attr.value for example, is empty.
 As for Entity nodes, EntityReference nodes and
 all their descendants are readonly.
 
Note: EntityReference nodes may cause element
 content and attribute value normalization problems when, such as in XML
 1.0 and XML Schema, the normalization is performed after entity reference
 are expanded.
 
See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification.
ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODEappendChild, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserData Submit a bug or feature
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