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- =head1 NAME
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- XML::DOM::EntityReference - An XML ENTITY reference in XML::DOM
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- =head1 DESCRIPTION
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- XML::DOM::EntityReference extends L<XML::DOM::Node>.
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- EntityReference objects may be inserted into the structure model when
- an entity reference is in the source document, or when the user wishes
- to insert an entity reference. 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 structure model, instead of providing EntityReference
- objects. If it does provide such objects, then for a given
- EntityReference node, it may be that there is no Entity node
- representing the referenced entity; but if such an Entity exists, then
- the child list of the EntityReference node is the same as that of the
- Entity node. As with the Entity node, all descendants of the
- EntityReference are readonly.
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- The resolution of the children of the EntityReference (the replacement
- value of the referenced Entity) may be lazily evaluated; actions by the
- user (such as calling the childNodes method on the EntityReference
- node) are assumed to trigger the evaluation.
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