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Decode HTML Entities found in XML

Demonstrates how to decode HTML entities found in XML.

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Swift

func chilkatTest() {
    var success: Bool = false

    // Load an XML file containing the following:

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

    let xml = CkoXml()!
    success = xml.loadFile(path: "qa_data/xml/hasHtmlEntity.xml")

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

    // Result is Franz&#xf6;sische
    print("\(xml.content!)")

    // Result is Französische
    var strDecoded: String? = xml.decodeEntities(str: xml.content)
    print("\(strDecoded!)")

}