NAME

Alvis::NLPPlatform::XMLEntities - Perl extension for managing characters which can not be used in a XML document

SYNOPSIS

use Alvis::NLPPlatform::XMLEntities;

Alvis::NLPPlatform::XMLEntities::decode($line);

Alvis::NLPPlatform::XMLEntities::eecode($line);

DESCRIPTION

This module is used to encode or decode special XML characters (&, ', ", >, <).

METHODS

encode($line)

This method encodes special XML characters as XML entities in the line $line.

decode($line)

This method decodes XML entities corresponding to special XML characters in the line $line . It returns the shift in the offset after substitution;

SEE ALSO

Alvis::NLPPlatform

Alvis web site: http://www.alvis.info

AUTHORS

Guillaume Vauvert <guillaume.vauvert@lipn.univ-paris13.fr>

Currently maintained by Julien Deriviere <julien.deriviere@lipn.univ-paris13.fr> and Thierry Hamon <thierry.hamon@lipn.univ-paris13.fr>

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004 by Guillaume Vauvert, Thierry Hamon and Julien Deriviere

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.