What is character-entities?
The character-entities npm package provides a comprehensive list of character entity references (like & for an ampersand or < for a less-than sign) that can be used in HTML and XML. This package is particularly useful for encoding or decoding character entities in text processing, ensuring that special characters are correctly represented in web pages or XML documents.
What are character-entities's main functionalities?
Accessing Character Entities
This feature allows you to access the character entity for special characters like ampersand (&) and less-than (<) sign. The code sample demonstrates how to import the package and retrieve the character entities for ampersand and less-than sign.
"use strict";
const characterEntities = require('character-entities');
console.log(characterEntities.amp); // Output: '&'
console.log(characterEntities.lt); // Output: '<'
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