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

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License: BSD-2-Clause

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