NSXMLParser not resolving internal entity

Question

I have this XML which declares internal entity n

NSString *xmlString = @"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
<!DOCTYPE JMdict [<!ENTITY n \"noun\">]>
    <JMdict>
         <entry>
             <sense>
                 <pos>&n;</pos>
                 <gloss>love</gloss>
             </sense>
         </entry>
    </JMdict>";

and use NSXMLParser to parse it

NSXMLParser *parser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:[xmlString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[parser setDelegate:self];
[parser parse];

and I implement the delegate methods

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundInternalEntityDeclarationWithName:(NSString *)name value:(NSString *)value {
    NSLog(@"foundInternalEntityDeclarationWithName: %@ = %@", name, value);
}

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict {
    NSLog(@"<%@>", elementName);
}

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName {
    NSLog(@"</%@>", elementName);
}

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartMappingPrefix:(NSString *)prefix toURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI {
    NSLog(@"didStartMappingPrefix %@ %@", prefix, namespaceURI);
}

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndMappingPrefix:(NSString *)prefix {
    NSLog(@"didEndMappingPrefix %@", prefix);
}

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string {
    NSLog(@"\t%@", string);
}

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundIgnorableWhitespace:(NSString *)whitespaceString {
    NSLog(@"foundIgnorableWhitespace %@", whitespaceString);
}

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundProcessingInstructionWithTarget:(NSString *)target data:(NSString *)data {
    NSLog(@"foundProcessingInstructionWithTarget %@", target);
}

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundComment:(NSString *)comment {
    NSLog(@"foundComment %@", comment);
}

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCDATA:(NSData *)CDATABlock {
    NSLog(@"foundCDATA");
}

- (NSData *)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser resolveExternalEntityName:(NSString *)name systemID:(NSString *)systemID {
    NSLog(@"resolveExternalEntityName %@ %@", name, systemID);
    return nil;
}

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser parseErrorOccurred:(NSError *)parseError {
    NSLog(@"Error %@", parseError);
}

However &n; is not resolved. Simply blank. What did I do wrong?

Output of the parsing:

2014-02-15 01:09:16.579 TestNSXMLParser[76939:303] foundInternalEntityDeclarationWithName: n = noun
2014-02-15 01:09:16.580 TestNSXMLParser[76939:303] <JMdict>
2014-02-15 01:09:16.581 TestNSXMLParser[76939:303] <entry>
2014-02-15 01:09:16.581 TestNSXMLParser[76939:303] <sense>
2014-02-15 01:09:16.582 TestNSXMLParser[76939:303] <pos>
2014-02-15 01:09:16.582 TestNSXMLParser[76939:303] </pos>
2014-02-15 01:09:16.582 TestNSXMLParser[76939:303] <gloss>
2014-02-15 01:09:16.583 TestNSXMLParser[76939:303]  love
2014-02-15 01:09:16.583 TestNSXMLParser[76939:303] </gloss>
2014-02-15 01:09:16.583 TestNSXMLParser[76939:303] </sense>
2014-02-15 01:09:16.584 TestNSXMLParser[76939:303] </entry>
2014-02-15 01:09:16.584 TestNSXMLParser[76939:303] </JMdict>

Did you ever resolve this? It seems like I got stack at the same problem. — Martin, Aug 21 '20 at 06:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 16 '14 at 16:59

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Any reason you have a backslash "\" around the value ("noun") of your entity definition?

<!ENTITY n \"noun\">]

The XML syntax for internal entity declaration is as the following:

<!ENTITY entity-name "entity-value">

Remove the backslash from around "noun" and try again.

answered Mar 16 '14 at 16:59

Raz

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backslash is to escape the double quote, cause the XML string is an NSString. When I use XML file as input, there are no backslashes, but the entity is still not resolved. – Nico Prananta Mar 24 '14 at 03:40

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