Decode Numeric HTML Entities in ColdFusion?

Question

I need a way to transform numeric HTML entities into their plain-text character equivalent. For example, I would like to turn the entity:

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Answer 1

Updated Answer:

Thanks to Todd Sharp for pointing out a very simple way to do this, using the Apache Commons StringEscapeUtils library, which is packaged with CF (and Railo), so you can just do:

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Original Answer:

That linked function is icky - there's no need to name them explicitly, and as you say it doesn't do numerics.

Much simpler is to let CF do the work for you - using the XmlParse function:

    
    #Arguments.Entity#').XmlRoot.XmlText />

That one works with Railo, I can't remember if CF supports that syntax yet though, so you might need to change it to:

    
    #Arguments.Entity#') />