Parser supports & for ampersand, but not &#038

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Description

While the parser supports both &amp and &#38 for the character &, it does not support the unicode entity &#038 for the same character, and it can't be manually added through the addEntity method on the parser due to & being disallowed from being added.

Input

Attempt to parse a piece of XML which contains the entity &#038 in a field.

Code

const parser = new XMLParser({ ignoreDeclaration: true, ignoreAttributes: false, attributeNamePrefix: "_", numberParseOptions: { leadingZeros: false, hex: true } });
parser.parse(`<title>Crimson Desert dev has started R&#038;D on a Nintendo Switch 2 version</title>`)

Output

{
    "title": "Crimson Desert dev has started R&D on a Nintendo Switch 2 version"
}

expected data

{
    "title": "Crimson Desert dev has started R&D on a Nintendo Switch 2 version"
}

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[amitguptagwl]

fixed in v5.6.0