Convert from Entity Reference to Hex or Decimal?

[kurt]

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

[Fox]

Re: Convert from Entity Reference to Hex or Decimal?



kurt wrote:[color=blue]
> 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[/color]

These might work:

var gDiv = null;

function
entity2CharCode (ent)
{
var retval = null;

if(!gDiv)
gDiv = document.create Element('DIV');

gDiv.innerHTML = ent;

return gDiv.innerHTML. charCodeAt(0);
}

function
entity2Hex(ent)
{

if(!gDiv)
gDiv = document.create Element('DIV');

gDiv.innerHTML = ent;

return gDiv.innerHTML. charCodeAt(0).t oString(16).toU pperCase();
}

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


You should implement error checking...

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

[kurt]

Re: Convert from Entity Reference to Hex or Decimal?

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:00:42 -0500, Fox <fox@fxmahoney. com> wrote:[color=blue]
>
>
>kurt wrote:[color=green]
>> 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[/color]
>
>These might work:
>
>var gDiv = null;
>
>function
>entity2CharCod e(ent)
>{
>var retval = null;
>
> if(!gDiv)
> gDiv = document.create Element('DIV');
>
> gDiv.innerHTML = ent;
>
> return gDiv.innerHTML. charCodeAt(0);
>}
>
>function
>entity2Hex(ent )
>{
>
> if(!gDiv)
> gDiv = document.create Element('DIV');
>
> gDiv.innerHTML = ent;
>
> return gDiv.innerHTML. charCodeAt(0).t oString(16).toU pperCase();
>}
>
>alert("&atilde ; = &#" + entity2CharCode ("&atilde;") );
>alert("&eth; = %" + entity2Hex("&et h;") +
> " (" + entity2CharCode ("&eth;") + ")");
>
>
>You should implement error checking...
>
>Fox
>************** *[/color]


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