+ @staticmethod
+ def htmlentity_transform(matchobj):
+ """Transforms an HTML entity to a Unicode character."""
+ entity = matchobj.group(1)
+
+ # Known non-numeric HTML entity
+ if entity in htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint:
+ return unichr(htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint[entity])
+
+ # Unicode character
+ mobj = re.match(ur'(?u)#(x?\d+)', entity)
+ if mobj is not None:
+ numstr = mobj.group(1)
+ if numstr.startswith(u'x'):
+ base = 16
+ numstr = u'0%s' % numstr
+ else:
+ base = 10
+ return unichr(long(numstr, base))
+
+ # Unknown entity in name, return its literal representation
+ return (u'&%s;' % entity)
+