EntityReference

# GdomeSmartDOM::EntityReference

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. If such an Entity exists, then the subtree of the EntityReference node is in general a copy of the Entity node subtree. However, this 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. As for Entity nodes, EntityReference nodes and all their descendants are readonly.

Inherits from
Node

Default Constructor
EntityReference(GdomeEntityReference* = 0)
Creates a smart pointer for the Gdome element whose pointer is passed as an argument. The user should never pass a non-null pointer to this constructor.

Copy and Cast Constructors
EntityReference(const EntityReference&) EntityReference(const Node&)
These constructors can be used to copy a smart pointer or to downcast it. If the downcasting is not possible, the resulting smart pointer will be null.

Copy Operator
EntityReference& operator=(const EntityReference&)

Equality
bool operator==(const EntityReference&) const bool operator!=(const EntityReference&) const
Two smart pointers are equal if they point to the same Gdome object.

This file has been generated automatically on mar apr 9 10:53:25 CEST 2002 as part of GMetaDOM. For more information see the home page of the project, or contact the main author: luca.padovani@cs.unibo.it.