HTML Decoder
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.
Quick Start
Install the npm html-decoder from the npm repo.
npm install html-decoder
Server-side Use (node.js)
Decoding a string with numeric and named character reference.
var HTMLDecoder = require("html-decoder");
decoder = new HTMLDecoder();
var htmlString = ">>>a ...";
var html = decoder.decode(htmlString);
Development
Build
grunt
How to test
grunt test
Maintenance
Generate from WHATWG
grunt gen
OR doing it manually
Get the latest named character reference json.
wget https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/entities.json
Generate the trie.
cp entities.json $REPO_HOME/data
./bin/genhtmlentities data/entities.json
Test the build again.
grunt test
Future works
License
This software is free to use under the BSD license.
See the LICENSE file for license text and copyright information.