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Document custom XML entities and character encodings - #138
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Explain the difference between non-ASCII XML characters, numeric references, custom named entities, and byte encodings. The guide shows
DecoderOptions.Entitywith explicit strict validation, plus how to retain charset decoding when supplying decoder options.A runnable example checks the documented output, ordinary/numeric Unicode input, unknown entities, malformed XML, and a Latin-1 document with a custom entity. This documents existing behavior; it does not change the parser.
Refs #118.
The example passes on the unchanged parser base.
go test . -v -cover -p 2passes locally on Windows/Go 1.27.1 with 89.5% statement coverage. The CI Go 1.23/1.24 and other OS combinations were not run locally.