# Interface EntityReference

All Superinterfaces:
  `XMLEvent, XMLStreamConstants`

public interface EntityReference extends XMLEvent
An interface for handling Entity events. This event reports entities that have not been resolved and reports their replacement text unprocessed (if available). This event will be reported if javax.xml.stream.isReplacingEntityReferences is set to false. If javax.xml.stream.isReplacingEntityReferences is set to true entity references will be resolved transparently. Entities are handled in two possible ways: (1) If javax.xml.stream.isReplacingEntityReferences is set to true all entity references are resolved and reported as markup transparently. (2) If javax.xml.stream.isReplacingEntityReferences is set to false Entity references are reported as an EntityReference Event.

Since:
  1.6

- ## Field Summary

  ### Fields declared in interface XMLStreamConstants

  `ATTRIBUTE, CDATA, CHARACTERS, COMMENT, DTD, END_DOCUMENT, END_ELEMENT, ENTITY_DECLARATION, ENTITY_REFERENCE, NAMESPACE, NOTATION_DECLARATION, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, SPACE, START_DOCUMENT, START_ELEMENT`

- ## Method Summary

  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `EntityDeclaration`
  `getDeclaration()`
  Return the declaration of this entity.
  `String`
  `getName()`
  The name of the entity

  ### Methods declared in interface XMLEvent

  `asCharacters, asEndElement, asStartElement, getEventType, getLocation, getSchemaType, isAttribute, isCharacters, isEndDocument, isEndElement, isEntityReference, isNamespace, isProcessingInstruction, isStartDocument, isStartElement, writeAsEncodedUnicode`

- ## Method Details

  - ### getDeclaration

    EntityDeclaration getDeclaration()
    Return the declaration of this entity.
    Returns:
      the declaration

  - ### getName

    String getName()
    The name of the entity
    Returns:
      the entity's name, may not be null