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What is an XML entity reference?

April 26, 2017entity Reference XML

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What is an XML entity reference?

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An XML entity reference is a way to give indirect references to characters for an XML parser. For example, an XML parser given: I am explaining the element will view the characters “” as an element, and complain that there is no closing tag. XML entities allow the above to be expressed in a way that makes sense to XML parsers: I am explaining the <sample> element The “<" and ">” characters are expressed as the XML entities of “<” and “>” respectively.