* Parsing HTML entities
@ 2011-02-17 0:06 Khaled Hosny
2011-02-17 7:25 ` luigi scarso
2011-02-17 8:00 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Khaled Hosny @ 2011-02-17 0:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Is there built-in support to parse HTML entities, I've some vague memory
about it but I don't seem to find much useful results.
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Khaled
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* Re: Parsing HTML entities
2011-02-17 0:06 Parsing HTML entities Khaled Hosny
@ 2011-02-17 7:25 ` luigi scarso
2011-02-17 8:00 ` Hans Hagen
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From: luigi scarso @ 2011-02-17 7:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> wrote:
> Is there built-in support to parse HTML entities, I've some vague memory
> about it but I don't seem to find much useful results.
If not, build a lpeg parse should be feasible.
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* Re: Parsing HTML entities
2011-02-17 0:06 Parsing HTML entities Khaled Hosny
2011-02-17 7:25 ` luigi scarso
@ 2011-02-17 8:00 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-17 10:37 ` Khaled Hosny
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2011-02-17 8:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 17-2-2011 1:06, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> Is there built-in support to parse HTML entities, I've some vague memory
> about it but I don't seem to find much useful results.
you mean that &whatever; in the tex input gets translated automatically?
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2011-02-17 8:00 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2011-02-17 10:37 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-02-17 10:42 ` luigi scarso
2011-02-17 10:48 ` Taco Hoekwater
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From: Khaled Hosny @ 2011-02-17 10:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:00:45AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 17-2-2011 1:06, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >Is there built-in support to parse HTML entities, I've some vague memory
> >about it but I don't seem to find much useful results.
>
> you mean that &whatever; in the tex input gets translated automatically?
More or less, e.g. \xmlentity{&} gets translated to & (ascii one)
and so.
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Khaled
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2011-02-17 10:37 ` Khaled Hosny
@ 2011-02-17 10:42 ` luigi scarso
2011-02-17 10:48 ` Taco Hoekwater
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From: luigi scarso @ 2011-02-17 10:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:00:45AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 17-2-2011 1:06, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> >Is there built-in support to parse HTML entities, I've some vague memory
>> >about it but I don't seem to find much useful results.
>>
>> you mean that &whatever; in the tex input gets translated automatically?
>
> More or less, e.g. \xmlentity{&} gets translated to & (ascii one)
> and so.
predefined entities in XML are trivial to (eventually) implement
The list of HTML character entity references is longer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
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2011-02-17 10:37 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-02-17 10:42 ` luigi scarso
@ 2011-02-17 10:48 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-02-18 15:33 ` Khaled Hosny
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From: Taco Hoekwater @ 2011-02-17 10:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 02/17/11 11:37, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:00:45AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 17-2-2011 1:06, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>> Is there built-in support to parse HTML entities, I've some vague memory
>>> about it but I don't seem to find much useful results.
>>
>> you mean that &whatever; in the tex input gets translated automatically?
>
> More or less, e.g. \xmlentity{&} gets translated to & (ascii one)
> and so.
There is \xmlsetentity{tex}{\TEX{}}. Is that what you want?
Best wishes,
Taco
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2011-02-17 10:48 ` Taco Hoekwater
@ 2011-02-18 15:33 ` Khaled Hosny
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From: Khaled Hosny @ 2011-02-18 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:48:38AM +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>
> On 02/17/11 11:37, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:00:45AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >> On 17-2-2011 1:06, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >>> Is there built-in support to parse HTML entities, I've some vague memory
> >>> about it but I don't seem to find much useful results.
> >>
> >> you mean that &whatever; in the tex input gets translated automatically?
> >
> > More or less, e.g. \xmlentity{&} gets translated to & (ascii one)
> > and so.
>
> There is \xmlsetentity{tex}{\TEX{}}. Is that what you want?
Not exactly, but never mind, I decided it is a minor feature not worthy
the trouble.
Regards,
Khaled
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