SYNOPSIS
hxunent [ -b ] [ -f ] [ file ]DESCRIPTION
The hxunent command reads the file (or standard input) and copies it to standard output with &-entities by their equivalent character (encoded as UTF-8). E.g., " is replaced by " and < is replaced by <.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:- -b
- The five builtin entities of XML (< > " ' &) are not replaced but copied unchanged. This is necessary if the output has to be valid XML or SGML.
- -f
- This option changes how unknown entities or lone ampersands are handled. Normally they are copied unchanged, but this option tries to "fix" them by replacing ampersands by &. Often such stray ampersands are the result of copy and paste of URLs into a document and then this option indeed fixes them and makes the document valid.
DIAGNOSTICS
The program's exit value is 0 if all went well, otherwise:- 1
- The input couldn't be read (file not found, file not readable...)
- 2
- Wrong command line arguments.
BUGS
The program assumes entities are as defined by HTML. It doesn't read a document's DTD to find the actual definitions in use in a document. With -f, it will even remove all entities that are not HTML entities.