Entity Strip/Insert

Consists of a pair of utilities that let you

convert/strip/insert HTML/XML/XHTML entities such as _amp;- and _quot;

from files converting them back and forth to their

equivalent single characters !amp; and !quot;. It handles the HTML 4

entities such as _hearts; as well as decimal _#123; and

hexadecimal _x#123; entities.

You may us this package as standalone

utilities, or use the classes in your own programs

to insert or strip entities from HTML.

You can use them like this:

REM to remove & entities and HTMLtags from a file

REM converting entities back to characters

strip.jar afile.html

REM to convert entities in a file

insert.jar afile.html

They come complete with Java source and jar files.