Any function in Emacs to unquote html's " , < , > , & etc

Any function in Emacs to unquote html's " , < , > , & etc

[Lennart Borgman]

Is there any function in Emacs to do this?
Should there be one?

Re: Any function in Emacs to unquote html's " , < , > , & etc

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there any function in Emacs to do this?

There's `mm-url-decode-entities-string' and related functions...

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Re: Any function in Emacs to unquote html's " , < , > , & etc

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
<larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Is there any function in Emacs to do this?
>
> There's `mm-url-decode-entities-string' and related functions...

Thanks. That was what I was looking for.

However it is very hard to find it unless you happen to know about it
(or someone who knows is helpful and tells you ;-) ). Is there
anything we can do about this? (Both for this specific case, such a
function is probably often wanted when manupulating html. And in the
general case - i.e. apropos is not of much help here.)

Re: Any function in Emacs to unquote html's " , < , > , & etc

[Andy Wingo]

On Sat 30 Oct 2010 23:29, Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there any function in Emacs to do this?
> Should there be one?

It's bad business if your XML / HTML parser doesn't do this for you as
it parses.

 <foo bar="&quot;/&gt;&lt;baz qux=&quot;"/>
 -> <foo bar=""/><baz qux=""/>

Oops...

Andy
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