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31 lines
867 B
JavaScript
31 lines
867 B
JavaScript
'use strict'
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/* eslint-env browser */
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var el
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var semicolon = 59 // ';'
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module.exports = decodeEntity
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function decodeEntity(characters) {
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var entity = '&' + characters + ';'
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var char
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el = el || document.createElement('i')
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el.innerHTML = entity
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char = el.textContent
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// Some entities do not require the closing semicolon (`¬` - for instance),
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// which leads to situations where parsing the assumed entity of ¬it; will
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// result in the string `¬it;`. When we encounter a trailing semicolon after
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// parsing and the entity to decode was not a semicolon (`;`), we can
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// assume that the matching was incomplete
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if (char.charCodeAt(char.length - 1) === semicolon && characters !== 'semi') {
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return false
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}
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// If the decoded string is equal to the input, the entity was not valid
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return char === entity ? false : char
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}
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