New methods in Entity

• XML documents may be built from multiple parsed entities, each of which is not necessarily a well-formed XML document, but is at least a plausible part of a well-formed XML document.

• Each entity may have its own text declaration. This is like an XML declaration without a standalone attribute and with an optional version attribute:

  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-9"?>
  <?xml encoding="ISO-8859-9"?>
  

• DOM3 adds three read-only properties:

  xmlEncoding

  A string specifying what encoding the the text declaration claims this entity uses. This is null if this entity is not an external parsed entity.

  inputEncoding

  A string specifying the actual encoding of this entity. This is null if this entity is not an external parsed entity.

  xmlVersion

  A string specifying the XML version given in the text declaration. This is null if this entity is not an external parsed entity.

• Java binding:

  
  package org.w3c.dom;
  
  public interface Entity extends Node {
  
    public String getInputEncoding();
    public String getXmlEncoding();
    public String getXmlVersion();
      
  }