When I have this XML

<user>dude &amp; &lt;dudette&gt;</user>

I expect to get the following events when I iterate through it via the XmlReader:

1. START_DOCUMENT
2. START_ELEMENT localName="user"
3. TEXT text="dude "
4. ENTITY_REF text="&"
5. TEXT text=" "
6. ENTITY_REF text="<"
7. TEXT text="dudette"
8. ENTITY_REF text=">"
9. END_ELEMENT localName="user"
10. END_DOCUMENT

However, number 5 doesn't turn up as a TEXT but as an IGNORABLE_WHITESPACE.

I think this is a bug, this is not an ignorable whitespace. Whitespaces between XML elements, such as <user>abc</user> <id>1234</id> would be ignorable.

(By the way, the existence of CDSECT and ENTITY_REF was a pitfall (aka footgun) for me, I assumed before that the XMLReader would already have all text content, i.e. I expected there would be just TEXT text="dude & <dudette>" and then END_ELEMENT.)