The first HTML5 compliant HTML decoder. This decoder is implemented based on the HTML5 specification and can decode the full named character reference list based on this json.
Install the npm html-decoder from the npm repo.
npm install html-decoder
Decoding a string with numeric and named character reference.
/* create the html decoder */
var HTMLDecoder = require("html-decoder");
var htmlString = ">>>a ...";
/* html = '<<<a...'; */
var html = HTMLDecoder.decode(htmlString);
npm run-script build
npm test
npm run-script gen
wget https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/entities.json
# $REPO_HOME is the home directory of this repo.
cp entities.json $REPO_HOME/data
# the output is saved @ src/gen/trie.js
./bin/genhtmlentities data/entities.json
npm test
This software is free to use under the BSD license. See the LICENSE file for license text and copyright information.