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NAME

6       HTML::HTML5::Entities - drop-in replacement for HTML::Entities
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SYNOPSIS

9        use HTML::Entities;
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11        my $enc = encode_entities('fish & chips');
12        print "$enc\n";   # fish & chips
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14        my $dec = decode_entities($enc);
15        print "$dec\n";   # fish & chips
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DESCRIPTION

18       This is a drop-in replacement for HTML::Entities, providing the
19       character entities defined in HTML5. Some caveats:
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21       •   The implementation is pure perl, hence in some cases slower,
22           especially decoding.
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24       •   It will not work in Perl < 5.8.1.
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26   Functions
27       "decode_entities($string, ...)"
28           This routine replaces HTML entities found in the $string with the
29           corresponding Unicode character. If multiple strings are provided
30           as arguments they are each decoded separately and the same number
31           of strings are returned.
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33           If called in void context the arguments are decoded in-place.
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35           This routine is exported by default.
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37       "_decode_entities($string, \%entity2char)"
38       "_decode_entities($string, \%entity2char, $expand_prefix)"
39           This will in-place replace HTML entities in $string. The
40           %entity2char hash must be provided. Named entities not found in the
41           %entity2char hash are left alone. Numeric entities are always
42           expanded.
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44           If $expand_prefix is TRUE then entities without trailing ";" in
45           %entity2char will even be expanded as a prefix of a longer
46           unrecognized name.
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48            $string = "foo&nbspbar";
49            _decode_entities($string, { nb => "@", nbsp => "\xA0" }, 1);
50            print $string;  # will print "foo bar"
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52           This routine is exported by default.
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54       encode_entities($string)
55       "encode_entities($string, $unsafe_chars)"
56           This routine replaces unsafe characters in $string with their
57           entity representation. A second argument can be given to specify
58           which characters to consider unsafe (i.e., which to escape). This
59           may be a regular expression.
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61           If called in void context the string is encoded in-place.
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63           This routine is exported by default.
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65       encode_entities_numeric($string)
66           This routine works just like encode_entities, except that the
67           replacement entities are always numeric.
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69           This routine is not exported by default.
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71       num_entity($string)
72           Given a single character string, encodes it as a numeric entity.
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74           This routine is not exported by default.
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76       The following functions cannot be exported. They behave the same as the
77       exportable functions.
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79       "HTML::Entities::decode($string, ...)"
80       HTML::Entities::encode($string)
81       "HTML::Entities::encode($string, $unsafe_characters)"
82       HTML::Entities::encode_numeric($string)
83       "HTML::Entities::encode_numeric($string, $unsafe_characters)"
84       HTML::Entities::encode_numerically($string)
85       "HTML::Entities::encode_numerically($string, $unsafe_characters)"
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87   Variables
88       $HTML::HTML5::Entities::hex
89           This variable controls whether numeric entities will use
90           hexadecimal or decimal notation. It is TRUE (hexadecimal) by
91           default, but can be set to FALSE.
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93           It only affects the encoding functions. Decoding always understands
94           both notations.
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96       %HTML::HTML5::Entities::char2entity
97       %HTML::HTML5::Entities::entity2char
98           There contain the mapping from all characters to the corresponding
99           entities (and vice versa, respectively). These variables may be
100           exported.
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102           Note that %char2entity is a more conservative set of mappings,
103           intended to be safe for serialising strings to HTML4, HTML5 and
104           XHTML 1.x. And for hysterical raisins, %entity2char does not
105           include the leading ampersands, while %char2entity does.
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BUGS

108       Please report any bugs to
109       <http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=HTML-HTML5-Entities>.
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SEE ALSO

112       HTML::Entities, HTML::HTML5::Parser, HTML::HTML5::Writer.
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AUTHOR

115       Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.
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118   Encoding and Decoding Functions
119       Copyright (c) 1995-2006 by Gisle Aas.
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121       Copyright (c) 2012 by Toby Inkster.
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123       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
124       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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126   Entity Tables
127       Copyright (c) 2004-2007 by Apple Computer Inc, Mozilla Foundation, and
128       Opera Software ASA.
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130       Copyright (c) 2007-2011 by Wakaba <w@suika.fam.cx>.
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132       Copyright (c) 2009-2012 by Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.
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DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

135       THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
136       WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
137       MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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