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Perl

Decode HTML Entities found in XML

Demonstrates how to decode HTML entities found in XML.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

# Load an XML file containing the following:

# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
# <output>Franz&#xf6;sische</output> 

$xml = chilkat::CkXml->new();
$success = $xml->LoadXmlFile("qa_data/xml/hasHtmlEntity.xml");

# Get non-decoded content, then get decoded content.

# Result is Franz&#xf6;sische
print $xml->content() . "\r\n";

# Result is Französische
$strDecoded = $xml->decodeEntities($xml->content());
print $strDecoded . "\r\n";