SYNOPSIS

Maybe<Int> lookupEntity( String name )

ARGUMENTS

name The entity name (for example pound or nbsp )

DESCRIPTION

Return the character number for a named HTML entity, or nothing if the name is not that of a HTML entity. This is mainly a helper function for the XMLentities(3kaya) module, though may occasionally be useful to call separately.

AUTHORS

Kaya standard library by Edwin Brady, Chris Morris and others ([email protected]). For further information see http://kayalang.org/

LICENSE

The Kaya standard library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (version 2.1 or any later version) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

RELATED

XMLentities.entityToLiteral(3kaya)