Constants
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Attributes
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Class Methods

Evaluates whether the given string matches an entity definition, returning true if so, and false otherwise.

Create a new entity. Simple entities can be constructed by passing a name, value to the constructor; this creates a generic, plain entity reference. For anything more complicated, you have to pass a Source to the constructor with the entity definition, or use the accessor methods. WARNING: There is no validation of entity state except when the entity is read from a stream. If you start poking around with the accessors, you can easily create a non-conformant Entity.

e = Entity.new( 'amp', '&' )
Instance Methods

Returns the value of this entity unprocessed – raw. This is the normalized value; that is, with all %ent; and &ent; entities intact

Returns this entity as a string. See write().

Evaluates to the unnormalized value of this entity; that is, replacing all entities – both %ent; and &ent; entities. This differs from +value()+ in that value only replaces %ent; entities.

Returns the value of this entity. At the moment, only internal entities are processed. If the value contains internal references (IE, %blah;), those are replaced with their values. IE, if the doctype contains:

<!ENTITY % foo "bar">
<!ENTITY yada "nanoo %foo; nanoo>

then:

doctype.entity('yada').value   #-> "nanoo bar nanoo"

Write out a fully formed, correct entity definition (assuming the Entity object itself is valid.)

out

An object implementing &lt;&lt; to which the entity will be output

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DEPRECATED and ignored