I have some Javascript code that communicates with an XML-RPC backend. The XML-RPC returns strings of the form:
This is the most comprehensive solution I've tried so far:
const STANDARD_HTML_ENTITIES = {
nbsp: String.fromCharCode(160),
amp: "&",
quot: '"',
lt: "<",
gt: ">"
};
const replaceHtmlEntities = plainTextString => {
return plainTextString
.replace(/(\d+);/g, (match, dec) => String.fromCharCode(dec))
.replace(
/&(nbsp|amp|quot|lt|gt);/g,
(a, b) => STANDARD_HTML_ENTITIES[b]
);
};