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Questions about the XML::Entities Perl module.

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How to decode XHTML and/or HTML5 entities in Java?

I have some strings that contain XHTML character entities: "They're quite varied" "Sometimes the string ∈ XML standard, sometimes ∈ HTML4 standard" "Therefore -> I need an XHTML entity decoder." "Sadly, some strings are not valid…
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How to resolve external entities with xml.etree like lxml.etree

I have a script that parses XML using lxml.etree: from lxml import etree parser = etree.XMLParser(load_dtd=True, resolve_entities=True) tree = etree.parse('main.xml', parser=parser) I need load_dtd=True and resolve_entities=True be have…
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Converting escaped XML entities back into UTF-8

So I've got this UTF-8 string in an XML file: Horrible place. ☠☠☠ And when I feed it to an external application, the funny characters come back escaped as XML entities: Horrible place. ☠☠☠ In Ruby, how do I convert that string…
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How can I add entity declarations via XML::Twig programmatically?

For the life of me I cannot understand the XML::Twig documentation for entity handling. I've got some XML I'm generating with HTML::Tidy. The call is as follows: my $tidy = HTML::Tidy->new({ 'indent' => 1, 'break-before-br' => 1, …
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Using text() to match custom entity names in XSLT

I am using to match text in my XML Document, which is working fine for plain text and known entities, i.e. it works fine for entities like & or unicode entities like π. However what's not working is…
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Perl XML-SAX-Expat external entity location

I am using XML-Simple along with XML-SAX-Expat to parse a document with external entities. I declare my entity like: And I refer to from another file in the same directory. However, it is searching my current…
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Unescape numeric XML Entities with Lua

What's a good implementation for unescaping numeric HTML/XML entities, e.g. and replacing them with the ASCII equivalent? Expressed as a unit test: local orig = "It's the "end" &ok; " local fixd = unescape(orig) -- Implement…
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XML character entities not parsing

I'm working with a server.xml file... Case 1: In catalina.properties i have declared the app.name app.name=or Case 2:
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Load entities in XSLT 2?

I'm using an XSLT 2.0 program to process some MathML documents. In those MathMLs, there are entities like ⁡ and ⁢, that give me "entity not defined" errors. Is there a way I can process documents with these entities…
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XXE and BILLION LAUGHS

whether xxe and billion laughs is possible using xmlpullfactory?I have tried below xml code ]> &js; parsed above xml…
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Javascript DOMParser and XMLSerialier removes XML entities

I am trying to preserve some XML entities when parsing XML files in javascript. The following code snippet illustrates the problem. Is there a way for me to make round-trip parse and retain the XML entities (  is nbsp; html)? This happens in…
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PHP SimpleXMLElement not making quotes into entities

I'm writing a PHP script to generate some xml docs and I am having some issues with SimpleXML and quotes. If I have code like this: $xml = new SimpleXMLElement(''); $xml->addChild('title','My Feed'); $xml->addChild('description','Entity…
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SimpleXML with decoded entities

How can I make SimpleXML to replace HTML/XML entities with their respective characters, in PHP? Assume having this XML document, in a string: $data = 'Tom & Jerry' Obviously, I want…
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xhtml adding entities

I have an Website which is delivered with as xhtml (with header an doctype). I get data from the server which sometimes contains some   entities what leads to an error when I try to set a string containing this via innerHTML. How I have already…
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Only convert <, >, &, ' and " for XML?

It seems I have another problem with special character and double quotes and so on after this question that has been solved earlier. I used to use this function that convert symbol like '&' to numberic code for XML, function…
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