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Re: NSString and decoding HTML Entities

Subject: Re: NSString and decoding HTML Entities
From: "Stephen J. Butler" <email@hidden>
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 16:16:11 -0500

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Stuart Malin <email@hidden> wrote:
> I need to convert strings that contain HTML entities (e.g., &#8217;  or
> &#gt;).  I can't seem to find an NSString method to do so (not that I
> sometimes don't easily miss the obvious).  So, I created a category on
> NSString and made two trivial methods that take advantage of toll-free
> bridging between NSString and CFStringRef by using
> CFXMLCreateStringByEscapingEntities and
> CFXMLCreateStringByUnescapingEntities.  Is there a better way?

Sounds good. Are you using garbage collection? You should read this if
you haven't already. It explains how CF(Retain|Release) work under GC
and when to use CFMakeCollectable:

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/GarbageCollection/Articles/gcCoreFoundation.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006687>
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