Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:07 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.xml.rss.decodeString

on decodeString (s, flNeuterMacros=true) {
	<<Changes
		<<5/27/08; 5:11:12 PM by DW
			<<More comprehensive character corrections using string.multipleReplaceAll.
		<<5/26/08; 7:51:31 PM by DW
			<<Change a curly-quote to a single-quote.
		<<11/30/02; 5:33:41 PM by JES
			<<New optional parameter, flNeuterMacros. Defaults to true, preserving existing behavior.
		<<10/2/02; 9:04:47 PM by JES
			<<Don't decode entities that were already decoded by xml.compile when the channel was loaded. Fixes the double-decoding bug where sample HTML text was being displayed in the news page as actual HTML.
		<<3/15/02; 5:54:43 PM by DW
			<<Created. Factored out of xml.rss.compileService, so drivers can get at it.
	bundle { //pass through string.multipleReplaceAll
		local (t);
		new (tabletype, @t);
		t.["“"] = "\"";
		t.["”"] = "\"";
		t.["Õ"] = "'";
		t.["“"] = "\"";
		t.["”"] = "\"";
		t.["—"] = "--";
		t.["'"] = "'";
		t.["""] = "\"";
		s = string.multiplereplaceall (s, @t, false)};
	<<s = string.replaceAll (s, "'", "'")
	<<s = string.replace (s, "Õ", "'") //5/26/08; 7:51:20 PM by DW
	<<s = string.replaceAll (s, """, "\"")
	s = xml.entityDecode (s, false, true); //false means we don't want to decide &, > and < -- they've already been decoded by xml.compile.
	
	if flNeuterMacros {
		s = string.replaceall (s, "{", "{");
		s = string.replaceall (s, "}", "}");
		s = string.replaceall (s, "<%", "<%")};
	if system.environment.isMac { //02/22/2001 JES: convert to Mac text on Macintoshes
		s = latinToMac.convert (s)};
	return (s)};
bundle { //test code
	dialog.alert (decodeString ("jessieÕs cute skirt"))}

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.