#29 Parser should decode HTML entities

[Francesc Rosàs]

Example:

$dom = new simple_html_dom('

&

');
echo $dom->find('*', 0)->plaintext; // Got "&", but expected "&"

[Francesc Rosàs]

[Francesc Rosàs]

I've solved it by adding a htmlspecialchars_decode() to any output function, but I suppose it should be fixed in the parser itself.

[Alex]

I don't think its a good idea to make this permanent because lets say you have ">"(greater than symbol) and/or "<"(less than symbol) anywhere in your text and you decode that then your HTML would become invalid basically

[Francesc Rosàs]

Please check the patch I submited, it only modifies text() and __get() functions. These functions doesn't return HTML so keeping HTML entities in it doesn't have any sense.

BTW, probably there is a bug in text() implementation as a same text can be decoded multiple times.

[LogMANOriginal]

Thanks for including a patch.
Closing this in favor of https://sourceforge.net/p/simplehtmldom/feature-requests/52/ - please continue discussion on that ticket.