On Oct 29, 2012, at 6:55 AM, Vincent Habchi <vi...@macports.org> wrote:
> Le 29 oct. 2012 à 14:34, Mike Abdullah <cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net> 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 _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
