# Interface EntityDeclaration

All Superinterfaces:
  `XMLEvent, XMLStreamConstants`

public interface EntityDeclaration extends XMLEvent
An interface for handling Entity Declarations This interface is used to record and report unparsed entity declarations.

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
`String`
`getBaseURI()`
Get the base URI for this reference or null if this information is not available
`String`
`getName()`
The entity's name
`String`
`getNotationName()`
The name of the associated notation.
`String`
`getPublicId()`
The entity's public identifier, or null if none was given
`String`
`getReplacementText()`
The replacement text of the entity.
`String`
`getSystemId()`
The entity's system identifier.

### Methods declared in interface XMLEvent

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

## Method Details

### getPublicId

String getPublicId()
The entity's public identifier, or null if none was given

Returns:
  the public ID for this declaration or null

### getSystemId

String getSystemId()
The entity's system identifier.

Returns:
  the system ID for this declaration or null

### getName

String getName()
The entity's name

Returns:
  the name, may not be null

### getNotationName

String getNotationName()
The name of the associated notation.

Returns:
  the notation name

### getReplacementText

String getReplacementText()
The replacement text of the entity. This method will only return non-null if this is an internal entity.

Returns:
  null or the replacement text

### getBaseURI

String getBaseURI()
Get the base URI for this reference or null if this information is not available

Returns:
  the base URI or null