I posted this on xerces-j-user a couple of days ago, with no replies.
Perhaps this list is more appropriate for this question.

> Reading through the source of org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser,
> v1.4.3, it appears that those (general) entities that are declared in
> the DTD but not referenced in the document are not populated, i.e. they
> have no children, regardless of the replacement values specified in the
> DTD. Entities are only populated when they are referenced and their
> replacement values are reported by the underlying streaming parser.
> 
> Is this observation correct? Is this the case in Xerces2, too?
> 
> I need to be able to hand users an empty document that only has a DTD,
> so that when users build their documents, they be able to use entities
> (or rather, references to them) as building blocks. Can I do that with
> Xerces?
> 
> Ari.

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