Name

decode_entities — decode encoded HTML characters back to their unencoded representation

DESCRIPTION

The filter decodes encoded HTML characters back to their unencoded representation.

EXAMPLES

Example: Filter example

[filter decode_entities]One & Two & Three[/filter]

          

NOTES

For more information on Perl Regular Expressions, pattern matching and character classes, see perlre(1).

The filter is most commonly used as pre_filter in mv_metadata entries, for fields that contain characters from a character set other than iso8859-1.

For example, &amp; is replaced with &, &lt; with < etc.

AVAILABILITY

decode_entities is available in Interchange versions:

4.6.0-5.9.0 (git-head)

SOURCE

Interchange 5.9.0:

Source: code/Filter/decode_entities.filter
Lines: 17


# Copyright 2002-2007 Interchange Development Group and others
# Copyright 1996-2002 Red Hat, Inc.
# 
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.  See the LICENSE file for details.
# 
# $Id: decode_entities.filter,v 1.4 2007-03-30 23:40:44 pajamian Exp $

CodeDef decode_entities Filter
CodeDef decode_entities Description Decode HTML entities
CodeDef decode_entities Routine <<EOR
sub {
return HTML::Entities::decode(shift);
}
EOR

AUTHORS

Interchange Development Group

SEE ALSO

DocBook! Interchange!