--- !ruby/object:RDoc::RI::MethodDescription 
aliases: []

block_params: 
comment: 
- !ruby/struct:RDoc::Markup::Flow::P 
  :body: "Create a new entity. Simple entities can be constructed by passing a name, value to the constructor; this creates a generic, plain entity reference. For anything more complicated, you have to pass a Source to the constructor with the entity definiton, or use the accessor methods. <tt>WARNING</tt>: There is no validation of entity state except when the entity is read from a stream. If you start poking around with the accessors, you can easily create a non-conformant Entity. The best thing to do is dump the stupid DTDs and use XMLSchema instead."
- !ruby/struct:RDoc::Markup::Flow::VERB 
  :body: " e = Entity.new( 'amp', '&amp;' )\n"
full_name: REXML::Entity::new
is_singleton: true
name: new
params: (stream, value=nil, parent=nil, reference=false)
visibility: public
