EntityConvert - convert to entity references automatically
EntityConvert is a really simple little freeware tool for converting all special characters into their character entity values - full details of these character entity values can be found at these W3C pages. The example image on the right shows the HTML for a simple list that has been converted.
If you are writing a web page or a blog or anything else designed to be viewed in a browser or as XML, and you'd like to include some text that has some special characters in there - such as code listings - you'll often run into problems with your browser trying to parse the code listings as HTML or as XML, as well as your page or XML no longer being valid. For example say you were trying to display some PHP or XHTML listings on a web page, where there is a < or a > or even a & character - quite often in the case of PHP - you may get large chunks of your code listing disappearing or breaking your page layout and so on.
With EntityConvert you can just past in the code you want to put on your page, click a button and then all of the code is changed to use nice character entity values. So all those trouble some <, > and & characters have now been automatically converted to < > and &. But thats not all it does, EntityConvert will convert all of the special characters to their chacter values for you.
Requirements
EntityConvert requires .NET 2.0 Framework - any operating system that can run .NET 2.0 will be fine (so thats XP, 2003, very probably 2000, and maybe even Linux+Mono if you are really lucky).
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15.05.2006.
