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# entities [![NPM version](http://img.shields.io/npm/v/entities.svg)](https://npmjs.org/package/entities) [![Downloads](https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/entities.svg)](https://npmjs.org/package/entities) [![Build Status](http://img.shields.io/travis/fb55/entities.svg)](http://travis-ci.org/fb55/entities) [![Coverage](http://img.shields.io/coveralls/fb55/entities.svg)](https://coveralls.io/r/fb55/entities)

Encode & decode HTML & XML entities with ease & speed.

## How to…

### …install `entities`

    npm install entities

### …use `entities`

```javascript
const entities = require("entities");

//encoding
entities.escape("&"); // "&"
entities.encodeXML("&"); // "&"
entities.encodeHTML("&"); // "&"

//decoding
entities.decodeXML("asdf & ÿ ü '"); // "asdf & ÿ ü '"
entities.decodeHTML("asdf & ÿ ü '"); // "asdf & ÿ ü '"
```

## Performance

This is how `entities` compares to other libraries on a very basic benchmark
(see `scripts/benchmark.ts`, for 10,000,000 iterations):

| Library        | `decode` performance | `encode` performance | Bundle size                                                                |
| -------------- | -------------------- | -------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| entities       | 10.809s              | 17.683s              | ![npm bundle size](https://img.shields.io/bundlephobia/min/entities)       |
| html-entities  | 14.029s              | 22.670s              | ![npm bundle size](https://img.shields.io/bundlephobia/min/html-entities)  |
| he             | 16.163s              | 44.010s              | ![npm bundle size](https://img.shields.io/bundlephobia/min/he)             |
| parse-entities | 28.507s              | N/A                  | ![npm bundle size](https://img.shields.io/bundlephobia/min/parse-entities) |

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License: BSD-2-Clause

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