2.2 KiB
2.2 KiB
entities 
Encode & decode XML and HTML entities with ease.
How to…
…install entities
npm i entities
…use entities
const entities = require("entities");
//encoding
entities.escape("&"); // "&"
entities.encodeXML("&"); // "&"
entities.encodeHTML("&"); // "&"
//decoding
entities.decodeXML("asdf & ÿ ü '"); // "asdf & ÿ ü '"
entities.decodeHTML("asdf & ÿ ü '"); // "asdf & ÿ ü '"
Performance
This is how entities compares to other libraries on a very basic benchmark (see scripts/benchmark.ts, for 10,000,000 iterations):
| Library | decode performance |
encode performance |
|---|---|---|
| entities | 10.809s | 17.683s |
| html-entities | 14.029s | 22.670s |
| he | 16.163s | 44.010s |
| parse-entities | 28.507s | N/A |
License: BSD-2-Clause
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