XML::En...es::Data(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for XML::Entities::Data(3) — the header up top is out here truncating it like XML::En...es::Data(3), but you already knew the vibe. This module is literally just XML entity definitions. That's the whole main character energy. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here's how you pull up on it:

use XML::Entities::Data;
$ISONUM_map = XML::Entities::Data::isonum;
$all = XML::Entities::Data::all;
@available_sets = XML::Entities::Data::names;
$reverse_mapping = XML::Entities::Data::char2entity('isonum');

# regenerate the data
perl download-entities.pl > XML/Entities/Data.pm
perl download-entities.pl http://from.where.org/ > Data.pm

Like, yes, that's the exact code — don't come for me, I copied it verbatim because that's the whole point. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So what is this module, fr fr? It's a bunch of hashes, and those hashes are encapsulated by subroutines. Their whole job? Mapping XML entity names to their unicode characters (or strings). That's it. That's the gig. 🦋

You're supposed to use it from the XML::Entities module, or honestly you can take the hashes it provides and pass them straight to HTML::Entities::_decode_entities. Very generous of it, honestly. 🫶

Now, the data can be re-generated whenever definitions are changed or altered — or when you want to use another set that's defined someplace online in an .ent file (of type DTD). It's giving "fresh data, fresh me." See the download-entities.pl script for that. No cap. ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Go check out these besties too:

• HTML::Entities
• XML::Entities

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright 2010 Jan Oldrich Kruza <sixtease@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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