Re: ARC question
Re: ARC question
- Subject: Re: ARC question
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 07:00:07 -0700
On Oct 29, 2012, at 6:55 AM, Vincent Habchi <email@hidden> wrote:
> Le 29 oct. 2012 à 14:34, Mike Abdullah <email@hidden> a écrit :
>
>> Well, you can ask CFXMLCreateStringByUnescapingEntities() to do this on OS X, although if I recall all the CFXML functions have now sadly been deprecated. The source code for it should still be available if you search around.
>
> I wasn’t aware of those calls. They do not seem to be deprecated. However, I have also a lot of accented characters (é, à, û, etc.) to unescape (since the contents are in French), and CFXMLCreateStringByUnescapingEntities() provides a basic dictionary of only five elements; it is extensible, but of course at the expense of creating a custom dictionary,
Actually, it's not. From the docs:
> Note: Currently, only the standard predefined entities are supported; passing NULL for entitiesDictionary is sufficient.
>
This kind of thing is why CFXML is deprecated.
>
>> But in general, I would just work my way through the string looking for occurrences of '&' and see if that makes up a valid escape sequence. Much of the problem if dealing with HTML rather than XML is that there are a vast range of special sequences. e.g. µ
>
> Yeah, that’s what I thought of. I will add a note in the body of the article about this.
I haven't tried it myself, but maybe you can construct an NSXMLDTD that references the standard HTML DTD and query it for entity expansions?
--Kyle Sluder
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