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Paul Battley
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?
-----------
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?
---------------
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?
-------------------------
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
----------
Examples and documentation are available at http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/
Get it
------
gem install htmlentities
Or grab a tarball here:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1462
Credits
The version number has inflated to 4.0.0 to reflect some significant
changes in the interface.
What is it?
-----------
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?
---------------
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?
-------------------------
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
----------
Examples and documentation are available at http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/
Get it
------
gem install htmlentities
Or grab a tarball here:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1462
Credits