Jason Cox wrote:

I wonder how long until there is a flaw in the wild.

Another_Darren wrote:



blowdart wrote:You should look at the source for Cassini, because as part of the framework install you get the asp.net hosting framework, so you can roll your own.

Thanks. I've also found a link to the official project page now.  Looks like you can compile as a service if you build the wrapper yourself.

Module EntryPoint
  Sub Main()
    Dim x0 As Xml.XmlDocument = New Xml.XmlDocument
    Dim xr As Xml.XmlTextReader = New Xml.XmlTextReader("..\EntityTest.xml")
    Dim xv As Xml.XmlValidatingReader = New Xml.XmlValidatingReader(xr)
    Try
      x0.Load(xv)
      Console.Error.WriteLine("Value [copy]: {0}", x0.DocumentType.Entities.GetNamedItem("copy").InnerText)
      Console.Error.WriteLine("Value [lt]: {0}", x0.DocumentType.Entities.GetNamedItem("lt").InnerText) ' Throws System.InvalidOperationException
    Catch ex As Exception
      Console.Error.WriteLine("Error: {0}", ex.Message)
      Console.Error.WriteLine("Value [lt]: {0}", x0.DocumentType.Entities.GetNamedItem("lt").InnerText) ' Returns empty string!!
    End Try
  End Sub
End Module

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
<!DOCTYPE doc
 [
  <!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">
  <!ENTITY copy "&#169;">
  <!ENTITY lt   "&#38;#60;">
  <!ENTITY gt   "&#38;#62;">
  <!ELEMENT doc (#PCDATA)>
 ]
>
<doc>&lt;&copy;&gt;</doc>