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//encode HTML markup-significant characters
//	keepCharacterReferences:	if true, the ampersands of HTML5 character references will not be encoded
function encodeHTML(str, keepCharacterReferences){
	"use strict";
	var namedChars, rxp;
	if(keepCharacterReferences){
		//see http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#named-character-references
		//this list excludes: AMP amp LT lt GT gt QUOT quot apos
		namedChars = 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		rxp = new RegExp("&(?!(?:#([0-9]+|[xX][a-fA-F0-9]+)|"+namedChars+");)", "g");	//only matches ampersands that are not part of a character reference, with exception to those for: & < > " '
	}
	return str.replace((rxp || /&/g), "&amp;").replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/>/g, "&gt;").replace(/"/g, "&quot;").replace(/'/g, "&apos;");
}

//decode HTML character references
function decodeHTML(str){
	"use strict";
	var tmp = document.createElement("div");
	tmp.innerHTML = str.replace(/</g, "&lt;").replace(/>/g, "&gt;");
	return tmp.firstChild.nodeValue;
}