character-entities

the questions says it all :) eg. we have > , we need > using only javascript Update : It seems jquery is the easy way out. But, it would be nice to have a lightweight solution. More like a function which is capable to do this by itself. You could do something like this: String.prototype.decodeHTML = function() { var map = {"gt":">" /* , … */}; return this.replace(/&(#(?:x[0-9a-f]+|\d+)|[a-z]+);?/gi, function($0, $1) { if ($1[0] === "#") { return String.fromCharCode($1[1].toLowerCase() === "x" ? parseInt($1.substr(2), 16) : parseInt($1.substr(1), 10)); } else { return map.hasOwnProperty($1) ?

I have program that needs to parse XML that contains character entities. The program itself doesn't need to have them resolved, and the list of them is large and will change, so I want to avoid explicit support for these entities if I can. Here's a simple example: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xml>Hello there &something;</xml> Is there a Java XML API that can parse a document successfully without resolving (non-standard) character entities? Ideally it would translate them into a special event or object that could be handled specially, but I'd settle for an option that would silently