# entities [](https://npmjs.org/package/entities) [](https://npmjs.org/package/entities) [](http://travis-ci.org/fb55/entities) [](https://coveralls.io/r/fb55/entities)
En- & decoder for XML/HTML entities.
## How to…
### …install `entities`
npm i 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 '"
```
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License: BSD-2-Clause
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