xmlStringDecodeEntities is deprecated

fxzxmicah · June 12, 2025, 3:49pm

Are there any alternative APIs for unescaping HTML documents?

nwellnhof · June 16, 2025, 6:19pm

I have no idea what you mean by “unescaping HTML documents”, but there’s probably no replacement. Besides, xmlStringDecodeEntities never supported anything related to HTML like named character references (“HTML entities”).

fxzxmicah · June 17, 2025, 9:56am

&lt;h1&gt;FEDORA-2025-a77bc54a20&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Packages in this update:&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;libical-3.0.20-1.fc42&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Update description:&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Update to 3.0.20&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Clean up the byte-swapping macros&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix a testcase in libical-glib when using 64-bit on a 32-bit system&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix regression introduced in v3.0.19 ignoring non-empty REQUEST-STATUS extdata&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix regression introduced in v3.0.19 error reporting for END before BEGIN&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fix a CMake problem in libical-glib&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

For example, to restore this HTML document to its original form. At least in my use case, xmlStringDecodeEntities is capable of accomplishing this task.