On Sunday, 13 March 2011 at 17:16, john lewis wrote: One bit of the Kingsclere History website is a list of surnames people > have an interest in and contact addresses for other people to use but > the email addresses are encrypted. > > part of the html code looks like this: > > <td><p class="bodytext">HAYWARD</td> > <td><p class="bodytext"><a > href="mailto:joysgenea@shaw.ca.">Joy French</a><br><a > href="mailto:BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk">Barbara Mallyon</a></td> > > > I don't know what software was used to set it up, probably some windows > based gui website design tool. > > Does anyone have a clue as to how I can decode the page so I can edit? > it. The original webmaster is unavailable for the moment so cannot ask > what software he used. That looks like bog-standard HTML/XML entities, with "mailto:" being equivalent to "mailto:" - you'll note that each entity consists of & followed by # then a number which indicates the character code (from ASCII?) followed by ; to terminate the expression.
if you want a quick decode you can use php: cat file_containing_html | php -r "print html_entity_decode(file_get_contents('php://stdin'));" -- Daniel Llewellyn
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