info.michael-simons.eu » XHTML http://info.michael-simons.eu Just another nerd blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:26:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ampersands and XHTML http://info.michael-simons.eu/2008/05/25/ampersands-and-xhtml/ http://info.michael-simons.eu/2008/05/25/ampersands-and-xhtml/#comments Sun, 25 May 2008 12:47:42 +0000 Michael http://info.michael-simons.eu/?p=167 A regular expression to replace all ampersands (&) in a text that are not part of an entity:

t = t.gsub(/&(?!#?\w+;)/, '&')

Language is ruby. The regexp feature used is called a negative lookahead.

Share This

]]> http://info.michael-simons.eu/2008/05/25/ampersands-and-xhtml/feed/ 0