Is there a deHTMLize function for strings?

[test]

Code:

a = document.createTextNode("< somestring >");

....will transform < into &lt; and > into &gt;

When I want to read that node later, I can only get it back in
this form: "&lt; somestring &gt;"

Is there a function that transforms such strings containing
HTML codes back to normal strings? Something like:

string deHTMLize (string);

What I need is to quote and send a part of the document when
user clicks a button, so I need the string without codes.

[Noozer]

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Code:

a = document.createTextNode("< somestring >");

...will transform < into &lt; and > into &gt;

I think what you want is encode() and decode()...

a = encode("< somestring >");

....and...

a = decode("&lt;%20somestring%20&gt;");

[test]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:43:51 GMT, Noozer wrote:

"test" <te**@test.test> wrote in message
news:10******************************@40tude.net.. .

Code:

a = document.createTextNode("< somestring >");

...will transform < into &lt; and > into &gt;

I think what you want is encode() and decode()...

a = encode("< somestring >");

...and...

a = decode("&lt;%20somestring%20&gt;");

But, there are no such functions in JavaScript? I can't find
them, and I get errors in javascript:

"encode is not defined"

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

test <te**@test.test> writes:

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:43:51 GMT, Noozer wrote:

"test" <te**@test.test> wrote in message
news:10******************************@40tude.net.. .

Code:

a = document.createTextNode("< somestring >");

...will transform < into &lt; and > into &gt;

I think what you want is encode() and decode()...

a = encode("< somestring >");

...and...

a = decode("&lt;%20somestring%20&gt;");

But, there are no such functions in JavaScript? I can't find
them, and I get errors in javascript:

"encode is not defined"

I don't know them either.

But you can make a decoder relatively easily:
---
var conversionMap = {
"amp" : "&",
"lt" : "<",
"gt" : ">",
"apos" : "'",
"quot" : '"'
}

function decode(entityString) {
return entityString.replace(/&(\w+);/g, function(m,g) {
return conversionMap[g]||m;
});
}
---
It requires a modern browser that accepts a function as second a
argument to replace.

If your string contains URL-escapes (%xx), you can first decode
these using the global "unescape" function (or after, depending
on what you want to unescape first).

/L
--
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DHTML Death Colors: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/rasterTriangleDOM.html>
'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'

[Noozer]

"test" <te**@test.test> wrote in message
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:43:51 GMT, Noozer wrote:

"test" <te**@test.test> wrote in message
news:10******************************@40tude.net.. .

Code:

a = document.createTextNode("< somestring >");

...will transform < into &lt; and > into &gt;

I think what you want is encode() and decode()...

a = encode("< somestring >");

...and...

a = decode("&lt;%20somestring%20&gt;");

But, there are no such functions in JavaScript? I can't find
them, and I get errors in javascript:

Doh... Sorry. It was too early.

I meant escape() and unescape() ...

[test]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:36:23 +0200, Lasse Reichstein Nielsen
wrote:

But you can make a decoder relatively easily:
---
var conversionMap = {
"amp" : "&",
"lt" : "<",
"gt" : ">",
"apos" : "'",
"quot" : '"'
}

function decode(entityString) {
return entityString.replace(/&(\w+);/g, function(m,g) {
return conversionMap[g]||m;
});
}
---
It requires a modern browser that accepts a function as second a
argument to replace.

Thanks much, works like a charm on Firefox 1.5.0.1.