Re: [Haskell-cafe] Unescaping with HaXmL (or anything else!)

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Anton van Straaten wrote:

I want to unescape an encoded XML or HTML string, e.g. converting " to the quote character, etc.

Since I'm using HaXml anyway, I tried using xmlUnEscapeContent with no luck, e.g. with HaXml 1.19.1:

let (CString _ s _) = head $ xmlUnEscapeContent stdXmlEscaper $ [CString False "This is a "quoted string"" ()] in s

The result is unchanged, i.e. "This is a "quoted string"".

Am I doing something wrong, or are my expectations wrong, or is this a bug?

Or, is there any other library that includes a simple unescape function for XML or HTML?

Tagsoup must contain such a function but it doesn't seem to export it.