Re: Retrieving attributes from an internal entity

Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Mon, 02 Nov 1998 13:17:42 -0800


At 03:10 PM 11/2/98 -0600, Don Kackman wrote:
><!ENTITY om "<variable targetset='om'>OM</variable>">
>
>I can load the document into MSXML (thier parser) and traverse the node
>tree. When I get to the node where I am refering to the &om; entity I
>get OM back as the value of that node but I cannot retrieve the
>targetset attribute.
>
>Is this a limitation of the MS beta parser or am I misunderstanding how
>entities are used in XML?

You're fine, you should be able to retrieve that attribute. You
should report this back to Microsoft ASAP, I'm sure they'll fix it. -T.