Howto force Oracle XML parser not to expand entity references?

Question

Hi,
Is it possible to force Oracle XML parser (Java) not to expand entity references, so that they appear in DOM tree as separated nodes after parsing XML?
Example:
for following XML
<tag>abc&auml;xyz</tag>
I get:
Element: "tag"
|-Text: "abcdxyz"
but I would like to get:
Element: "tag"
|-Text: "abc"
|
|-EntityReference: "auml"
|
|-Text: "xyz"
I've already tried to use JAXP api (setExpandEntityReferences method in java.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory), but it doesn't seem to work.
I'm using parser from XDK Java v9.2.0.2.0 Production.
Thx,
James

Answer 1

This is requested code sample:
DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
dbf.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
System.out.println("isExpandEntityReferences = "+dbf.isExpandEntityReferences());
DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
Document d = db.parse("file://c:/test.xml");
Element e = d.getDocumentElement();
System.out.println("documentElement"+ e.getTagName() + " nodeType=" +e.getNodeType());
System.out.println("ChildNodes:");
NodeList nodeList = e.getChildNodes();
for(int i=0; i<nodeList.getLength();i++) {
System.out.println(i+" value=\""+nodeList.item(i).getNodeValue()+"\" nodeType="+nodeList.item(i).getNodeType());
Content of test.xml:
<!DOCTYPE test SYSTEM "test.dtd">
<test>abc&auml;xyz</test>
Content of test.dtd:
<!ELEMENT test (#PCDATA)>
<!ENTITY auml "&#x00E4;">
When you run it you will get the following output:
isExpandEntityReferences = true
documentElementtest nodeType=1
ChildNodes:
0 value="abcdxyz" nodeType=3
which means that EntityReference has been expanded.
As you can see in the output the isExpandEntityReferences method returns "true", even though I set it to false in code!
Does it mean that Oracle parser simple doesn't support this feature???
Thx,
James