Entity : Node

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Platform Support

IE	Mozilla	Netscape	Opera	Safari
no	1.0+	6.0+	no	no

Constructors

Constructor	Action	IE	Mozilla	Netscape	Opera	Safari
Entity Constructor() : Entity Represents an entity in an XML Document Type Definition (DTD).	Show Details	no	1.0+	6.0+	no	no
Entity() : Entity Represents an entity in an XML Document Type Definition (DTD). Returns Entity Visibility internal

Properties

Property	Action	IE	Mozilla	Netscape	Opera	Safari
notationName : String Notation name for an unparsed entity.	Show Details	no	1.0+	6.0+	no	no
Remarks If this entity is unparsed, notationName contains the notation name of the entity notation. notationName is null for parsed entities. Availability HTML DOM Level 2|W3C
publicId : String Public identifier for this entity, if specified	Show Details	no	1.0+	6.0+	no	no
Remarks If this entity was defined with a public identifier, then this property will contain that value, otherwise it will return null. Availability HTML DOM Level 2|W3C
systemId : String System identifier for this entity, if specified	Show Details	no	1.0+	6.0+	no	no
Remarks If this entity was defined with a system identifier, then this property will contain that value, otherwise it will return null. Availability HTML DOM Level 2|W3C

Remarks

This object represents an entity from a Document Type Declaration (DTD). Entities are declarations of abbreviated text or other nodes within an XML document. These can then be inserted at various places in an XML document with EntityReference objects.

While the entity name is stored in the Node.nodeName property, the rest of the entity's data (the actual content of the entity) is stored as children of this object (in the Node.childNodes property). The Node.parentNode for Entity nodes will always be null.

Entity objects are read-only and cannot be modified once they are added to the document or after a document is loaded. If you need to change an entity's contents you should create a new one and change all the EntityReference nodes that referred to the old entity to refer to the new one instead.

References

DocumentType|EntityReference|Notation

Availability

HTML DOM Level 2|W3C