MathML::Entities 0.13 review

MathML::Entities is a Perl module that can convert XHTML+MathML Named Entities to Numeric Character References. SYNOPSIS use M

License: Perl Artistic License File size: 17K Developer: Jacques Distler

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MathML::Entities is a Perl module that can convert XHTML+MathML Named Entities to Numeric Character References.

SYNOPSIS

use MathML::Entities;

$html = '© by me';

# convert named HTML entities to character references:
$numeric = name2numbered($html); # © by me

# convert named HTML entities to character references:
$utf8 = name2utf8($html); # utf8

MathML::Entities a content conversion filter for named XHTML+MathML entities. There are over two thousand named entities in the XHTML+MathML DTD. All the Entities defined in the XHTML+MathML DTD except the five "safe" ones (<, >, &, ", '), will be converted to the equivalent numeric character references or to utf-8 characters.

Named entities which are not in the XHTML+MathML DTD are escaped. This makes the resulting XHTML (or XHTML+MathML) safe for consumption by non-validating XML parsers.
Unlike, HTML::Entities, the mapping between MathML named entities and codepoints is many-to-one. Therefore, there's no particular sense in having an inverse function, which takes codepoints to named entities.

Requirements:
Perl