* Updated to reflect the recent changes in the xmlread and xmlwrite units

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@ -9,15 +9,25 @@ XMLRead:
Provides a simple XML reader, which can read XML data from a file or stream.
This simple parser will be replaced by a much improved one soon, which will be
able to handle different character encodings, namespaces and entity references.
(This parser cannot handle entity references correctly! And I don't plan to fix
this old parser as this is much work. Additionally, it reads the file directly,
i.e. it doesn't support Unicode or different charsets yet.)
(This parser reads the file directly, i.e. it doesn't support Unicode or
different charsets yet.)
Regarding entity references: The pre-defined entities "lt", "gt", "amp", "apos"
and "quot" are replaced by their normal value during reading. Other entity
references are stored as TDOMEntityReference nodes in the DOM tree.
Regarding whitespace handling: Whitespace directly after the beginning of a
tag is discarded, and sections of the XML file which contain only whitespace and
no other text content are discarded as well.
XMLWrite:
Writes a DOM structure as XML data into a file or stream. It can deal both with
XML files and XML fragments.
At the moment it supports only the node types which can be read by XMLRead.
Please note that the writer replaces the '"' character in attribute values with
'&quot;' and the '<' character in text nodes with '&lt;'. As this are entity
references ('quot' and 'lt' are predefined entities in XML), the reader won't
be able to read such files!
Please note that the writer replaces some characters by entity references
automatically:
For attribute values, '"' gets replaced by '&quot;', and '&' gets replaced by
'&amp'. For normal text nodes, the following replacements will be done:
'<' => '&lt;'
'>' => '&gt;'
'&' => '&amp;'
The XML reader (in xmlread.pp) will convert these entity references back to
their original characters.