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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP DOM] Proposal of boolean property DOMDocument::keepCharacterEntities
From: rrichards@ctindustries.net (Rob Richards)

Not the place for a feature request and not going to happen. It is not 
supported in libxml2 because it is against the XML specs.

Rob

Freyjkell wrote:
> (bool) DOMDocument::keepUnknownCharacterEntities = false;
>
> If set to true (before calling DOMDocument::load() or 
> DOMDocument::loadXML()), when parser will occur an unknown entity, it 
> won't crash, but let it alone. In DOMNode::textContent, 
> DOMNode::getAttribute() and similar, they will be omitted. During 
> importing it to another document, they will be moved without any changes.
>
> It could be useful for editing XHTML documents. 
> DOMDocument::resolveExternals is very slow. Even if DTD is on disk, it 
> includes many crappy code (i.e. references to XML Schema).
>