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

Here's another function that will decode all the numeric html character entities in a string. It doesn't rely on xml parsing so it will work on strings that contain unbalanced xml tags. It's not efficient if the string has a large number of entities, but it's pretty good if there are none/few. I have only tested this on Railo, not AdobeCF.