NAME

Bio::Phylo::NeXML::Entities - Functions for dealing with XML entities

DESCRIPTION

This package provides subroutines for dealing with characters that need to be encoded as XML entities, and decoded in other formats. For example: "&" needs to be encoded as "&" in XML. The subroutines have the same signatures and the same names as those in the commonly-used module HTML::Entities. They are re-implemented here to avoid introducing dependencies.

SUBROUTINES

The following subroutines are utility functions that can be imported using:

 use Bio::Phylo::NeXML::Entities '/entities/';

encode_entities

Encodes problematic characters as XML entities

 Type    : Utility function
 Title   : encode_entities
 Usage   : my $encoded = encode_entities('string with & or >','>&')
 Function: Encodes entities in first argument string
 Returns : Modified string
 Args    : Required, first argument: a string to encode
           Optional, second argument: a string that specifies
           which characters to encode
    

decode_entities

Decodes XML entities into the characters they code for

 Type    : Utility function
 Title   : decode_entities
 Usage   : my $decoded = decode_entities('string with & or >')
 Function: decodes encoded entities in argument string(s)
 Returns : Array of decoded strings
 Args    : One or more encoded strings
    

SEE ALSO

There is a mailing list at <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bio-phylo> for any user or developer questions and discussions.

Bio::Phylo::Manual

Also see the manual: Bio::Phylo::Manual and <http://rutgervos.blogspot.com>.

CITATION

If you use Bio::Phylo in published research, please cite it:

Rutger A Vos, Jason Caravas, Klaas Hartmann, Mark A Jensen and Chase Miller, 2011. Bio::Phylo - phyloinformatic analysis using Perl. BMC Bioinformatics 12:63. <http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-12-63>