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hello,
Is there a way to convert entity references ( "ã",etc)
to their equivalent hex or decimal codes without using an associative
array or some such thing to list all the equivalencies?
thanks,
kurt

kurt wrote:
> hello,
> Is there a way to convert entity references ( "ã",etc)
> to their equivalent hex or decimal codes without using an associative
> array or some such thing to list all the equivalencies?
> thanks,
> kurt

These might work:

var gDiv = null;

function
entity2CharCode(ent)
{
var retval = null;

if(!gDiv)
gDiv = document.createElement('DIV');

gDiv.innerHTML = ent;

return gDiv.innerHTML.charCodeAt(0);
}

function
entity2Hex(ent)
{

if(!gDiv)
gDiv = document.createElement('DIV');

gDiv.innerHTML = ent;

return gDiv.innerHTML.charCodeAt(0).toString(16).toUpperC ase();
}

alert("ã = &#" + entity2CharCode("ã"));
alert("ð = %" + entity2Hex("ð") +
" (" + entity2CharCode("ð") + ")");


You should implement error checking...

Fox
***************

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:00:42 -0500, Fox <> wrote:
>
>
>kurt wrote:
>> hello,
>> Is there a way to convert entity references ( "&atilde;",etc)
>> to their equivalent hex or decimal codes without using an associative
>> array or some such thing to list all the equivalencies?
>> thanks,
>> kurt
>
>These might work:
>
>var gDiv = null;
>
>function
>entity2CharCode(ent)
>{
>var retval = null;
>
> if(!gDiv)
> gDiv = document.createElement('DIV');
>
> gDiv.innerHTML = ent;
>
> return gDiv.innerHTML.charCodeAt(0);
>}
>
>function
>entity2Hex(ent)
>{
>
> if(!gDiv)
> gDiv = document.createElement('DIV');
>
> gDiv.innerHTML = ent;
>
> return gDiv.innerHTML.charCodeAt(0).toString(16).toUpperC ase();
>}
>
>alert("&atilde; = &#" + entity2CharCode("&atilde;"));
>alert("&eth; = %" + entity2Hex("&eth;") +
> " (" + entity2CharCode("&eth;") + ")");
>
>
>You should implement error checking...
>
>Fox
>***************


works great! (mozilla, IE; on XP) thanks!