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Hello everyone! I'm trying to find some documentation that explains how to properly convert numeric entity references in a string value while parsing XML.  Can somebody point me to the proper place or tell me the magic keywords to enter into Google?  :slightly_smiling_face:  i.e. convert "&amp;#160;" to " " (&lt;-- non-breaking space character).

I didn’t know that `&amp;#160;` was equivalent to a nbsp but apparently it can be. Maybe this answer helps trigger some keywords <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3274315/is-160-a-replacement-of-nbsp>

My app is parsing RSS feeds, so &amp;#160; was just one of the entities that I saw that needed to be decoded to the character.  I'm not sure if it is a setting on the kotlin serialization package or what.

I also saw "&amp;#8217;" too, which is an apostrophe.

Kotlinx Serialization doesn’t handle XML/HTML by default, but there is a user-supported XML library <https://github.com/pdvrieze/xmlutil>

but for parsing HTML you might have better luck with JSoup, or maybe Ktor