Asp Forum - [ANN] HTMLEntities 4.0.0

Paul Battley

3/16/2007 1:19:00 PM

I wrapped up and released a new version of HTMLEntities last night.
The version number has inflated to 4.0.0 to reflect some significant
changes in the interface.

What is it?
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HTMLEntities is a simple library to facilitate encoding and decoding
of named (ý and so on) or numerical ({ or Ī)
entities in HTML and XHTML documents.

What's changed?
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This update has many requested improvements and fixes:

* Now understands all the entities referred to in the XHTML 1.0 DTD
(253 entities compared with 131 in version 3.0.1).
* Calls to_s on parameters to play nicely with Rails 1.2.1.
* Entity mapping data is now lazily loaded.
* New instantiation-based interface (but legacy interface is preserved
for compatibility).
* Handles HTML4 as well as XHTML1 (the former lacks the ' entity).
* Encodes basic entities numerically when :basic isn't specified and
:decimal or :hexadecimal is.
* Performs a maximum of two gsub passes instead of three when
encoding, which should be more efficient on long strings.

What about existing code?
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Using HTMLEntities already? You probably don't need to change
anything. The old syntax still works, although it should be considered
deprecated. However, HTMLEntities is now a class instead of a module,
so if you have been including HTMLEntities and calling the methods
directly, you'll need to make a few changes.

Learn more
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Examples and documentation are available at http://htmlentities.ruby...

Get it
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gem install htmlentities

Or grab a tarball here:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?gro...

Credits
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Thanks to Dallas DeVries, Johan Duflost, Paul Wright, Marcos Kuhns and
Jaime Iniesta for bug reports and feature requests.

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[ANN] HTMLEntities 4.0.0

Paul Battley

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