WP_HTML_Decoder::read_character_reference()public staticWP 6.6.0

Attempt to read a character reference at the given location in a given string, depending on the context in which it's found.

If a character reference is found, this function will return the translated value that the reference maps to. It will then set $match_byte_length the number of bytes of input it read while consuming the character reference. This gives calling code the opportunity to advance its cursor when traversing a string and decoding.

Example:

null === WP_HTML_Decoder::read_character_reference( 'attribute', 'Ships…', 0 );
'…'  === WP_HTML_Decoder::read_character_reference( 'attribute', 'Ships…', 5, $token_length );
8    === $token_length; // `…`
null === WP_HTML_Decoder::read_character_reference( 'attribute', '¬in', 0 );
'∉'  === WP_HTML_Decoder::read_character_reference( 'attribute', '∉', 0, $token_length );
7    === $token_length; // `∉`
'¬'  === WP_HTML_Decoder::read_character_reference( 'data', '¬in', 0, $token_length );
4    === $token_length; // `¬`
'∉'  === WP_HTML_Decoder::read_character_reference( 'data', '∉', 0, $token_length );
7    === $token_length; // `∉`

Method of the class: WP_HTML_Decoder{}

No Hooks.

Return

String|false. Decoded character reference in UTF-8 if found, otherwise false.

Usage

$result = WP_HTML_Decoder::read_character_reference( $context, $text, $at, $match_byte_length );
$context(string) (required)
attribute for decoding attribute values, data otherwise.
$text(string) (required)
Text document containing span of text to decode.
$at(int)
Byte offset into text where span begins.
Default: beginning (0)
$match_byte_length (passed by reference — &)
-
Default: null

Changelog

Since 6.6.0 Introduced.

WP_HTML_Decoder::read_character_reference() code WP 6.6.2

public static function read_character_reference( $context, $text, $at = 0, &$match_byte_length = null ) {
	/**
	 * Mappings for HTML5 named character references.
	 *
	 * @var WP_Token_Map $html5_named_character_references
	 */
	global $html5_named_character_references;

	$length = strlen( $text );
	if ( $at + 1 >= $length ) {
		return null;
	}

	if ( '&' !== $text[ $at ] ) {
		return null;
	}

	/*
	 * Numeric character references.
	 *
	 * When truncated, these will encode the code point found by parsing the
	 * digits that are available. For example, when `🅰` is truncated
	 * to `&#x1f1` it will encode `DZ`. It does not:
	 *  - know how to parse the original `🅰`.
	 *  - fail to parse and return plaintext `&#x1f1`.
	 *  - fail to parse and return the replacement character `�`
	 */
	if ( '#' === $text[ $at + 1 ] ) {
		if ( $at + 2 >= $length ) {
			return null;
		}

		/** Tracks inner parsing within the numeric character reference. */
		$digits_at = $at + 2;

		if ( 'x' === $text[ $digits_at ] || 'X' === $text[ $digits_at ] ) {
			$numeric_base   = 16;
			$numeric_digits = '0123456789abcdefABCDEF';
			$max_digits     = 6; // 
			++$digits_at;
		} else {
			$numeric_base   = 10;
			$numeric_digits = '0123456789';
			$max_digits     = 7; // 
		}

		// Cannot encode invalid Unicode code points. Max is to U+10FFFF.
		$zero_count    = strspn( $text, '0', $digits_at );
		$digit_count   = strspn( $text, $numeric_digits, $digits_at + $zero_count );
		$after_digits  = $digits_at + $zero_count + $digit_count;
		$has_semicolon = $after_digits < $length && ';' === $text[ $after_digits ];
		$end_of_span   = $has_semicolon ? $after_digits + 1 : $after_digits;

		// `&#` or `&#x` without digits returns into plaintext.
		if ( 0 === $digit_count && 0 === $zero_count ) {
			return null;
		}

		// Whereas `&#` and only zeros is invalid.
		if ( 0 === $digit_count ) {
			$match_byte_length = $end_of_span - $at;
			return '�';
		}

		// If there are too many digits then it's not worth parsing. It's invalid.
		if ( $digit_count > $max_digits ) {
			$match_byte_length = $end_of_span - $at;
			return '�';
		}

		$digits     = substr( $text, $digits_at + $zero_count, $digit_count );
		$code_point = intval( $digits, $numeric_base );

		/*
		 * Noncharacters, 0x0D, and non-ASCII-whitespace control characters.
		 *
		 * > A noncharacter is a code point that is in the range U+FDD0 to U+FDEF,
		 * > inclusive, or U+FFFE, U+FFFF, U+1FFFE, U+1FFFF, U+2FFFE, U+2FFFF,
		 * > U+3FFFE, U+3FFFF, U+4FFFE, U+4FFFF, U+5FFFE, U+5FFFF, U+6FFFE,
		 * > U+6FFFF, U+7FFFE, U+7FFFF, U+8FFFE, U+8FFFF, U+9FFFE, U+9FFFF,
		 * > U+AFFFE, U+AFFFF, U+BFFFE, U+BFFFF, U+CFFFE, U+CFFFF, U+DFFFE,
		 * > U+DFFFF, U+EFFFE, U+EFFFF, U+FFFFE, U+FFFFF, U+10FFFE, or U+10FFFF.
		 *
		 * A C0 control is a code point that is in the range of U+00 to U+1F,
		 * but ASCII whitespace includes U+09, U+0A, U+0C, and U+0D.
		 *
		 * These characters are invalid but still decode as any valid character.
		 * This comment is here to note and explain why there's no check to
		 * remove these characters or replace them.
		 *
		 * @see https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/#noncharacter
		 */

		/*
		 * Code points in the C1 controls area need to be remapped as if they
		 * were stored in Windows-1252. Note! This transformation only happens
		 * for numeric character references. The raw code points in the byte
		 * stream are not translated.
		 *
		 * > If the number is one of the numbers in the first column of
		 * > the following table, then find the row with that number in
		 * > the first column, and set the character reference code to
		 * > the number in the second column of that row.
		 */
		if ( $code_point >= 0x80 && $code_point <= 0x9F ) {
			$windows_1252_mapping = array(
				0x20AC, // 0x80 -> EURO SIGN (€).
				0x81,   // 0x81 -> (no change).
				0x201A, // 0x82 -> SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK (‚).
				0x0192, // 0x83 -> LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK (ƒ).
				0x201E, // 0x84 -> DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK („).
				0x2026, // 0x85 -> HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS (…).
				0x2020, // 0x86 -> DAGGER (†).
				0x2021, // 0x87 -> DOUBLE DAGGER (‡).
				0x02C6, // 0x88 -> MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT (ˆ).
				0x2030, // 0x89 -> PER MILLE SIGN (‰).
				0x0160, // 0x8A -> LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON (Š).
				0x2039, // 0x8B -> SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK (‹).
				0x0152, // 0x8C -> LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE (Œ).
				0x8D,   // 0x8D -> (no change).
				0x017D, // 0x8E -> LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON (Ž).
				0x8F,   // 0x8F -> (no change).
				0x90,   // 0x90 -> (no change).
				0x2018, // 0x91 -> LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (‘).
				0x2019, // 0x92 -> RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (’).
				0x201C, // 0x93 -> LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK (“).
				0x201D, // 0x94 -> RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK (”).
				0x2022, // 0x95 -> BULLET (•).
				0x2013, // 0x96 -> EN DASH (–).
				0x2014, // 0x97 -> EM DASH (—).
				0x02DC, // 0x98 -> SMALL TILDE (˜).
				0x2122, // 0x99 -> TRADE MARK SIGN (™).
				0x0161, // 0x9A -> LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON (š).
				0x203A, // 0x9B -> SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK (›).
				0x0153, // 0x9C -> LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE (œ).
				0x9D,   // 0x9D -> (no change).
				0x017E, // 0x9E -> LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON (ž).
				0x0178, // 0x9F -> LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS (Ÿ).
			);

			$code_point = $windows_1252_mapping[ $code_point - 0x80 ];
		}

		$match_byte_length = $end_of_span - $at;
		return self::code_point_to_utf8_bytes( $code_point );
	}

	/** Tracks inner parsing within the named character reference. */
	$name_at = $at + 1;
	// Minimum named character reference is two characters. E.g. `GT`.
	if ( $name_at + 2 > $length ) {
		return null;
	}

	$name_length = 0;
	$replacement = $html5_named_character_references->read_token( $text, $name_at, $name_length );
	if ( false === $replacement ) {
		return null;
	}

	$after_name = $name_at + $name_length;

	// If the match ended with a semicolon then it should always be decoded.
	if ( ';' === $text[ $name_at + $name_length - 1 ] ) {
		$match_byte_length = $after_name - $at;
		return $replacement;
	}

	/*
	 * At this point though there's a match for an entry in the named
	 * character reference table but the match doesn't end in `;`.
	 * It may be allowed if it's followed by something unambiguous.
	 */
	$ambiguous_follower = (
		$after_name < $length &&
		$name_at < $length &&
		(
			ctype_alnum( $text[ $after_name ] ) ||
			'=' === $text[ $after_name ]
		)
	);

	// It's non-ambiguous, safe to leave it in.
	if ( ! $ambiguous_follower ) {
		$match_byte_length = $after_name - $at;
		return $replacement;
	}

	// It's ambiguous, which isn't allowed inside attributes.
	if ( 'attribute' === $context ) {
		return null;
	}

	$match_byte_length = $after_name - $at;
	return $replacement;
}