Unescape HTML entities in Javascript?

Question

I have some Javascript code that communicates with an XML-RPC backend. The XML-RPC returns strings of the form:

Answer 1

Closures can avoid creating unnecessary objects.

const decodingHandler = (() => {
  const element = document.createElement('div');
  return text => {
    element.innerHTML = text;
    return element.textContent;
  };
})();

A more concise way

const decodingHandler = (() => {
  const element = document.createElement('div');
  return text => ((element.innerHTML = text), element.textContent);
})();