DecodeEntities decodes escaped XML entities in a string and returns the unescaped string.

IsExtension returns whether or not the current XML element is an extension element (if it has a non empty prefix).

NewXMLSanitizerReader creates an io.Reader that wraps another io.Reader and removes illegal xml characters from the io stream.

ParseDate parses a given date string using a large list of commonly found feed date formats.

ParseExtension parses the current element of the XMLPullParser as an extension element and updates the extension map.

ParseNameAddress parses name/email strings commonly found in RSS feeds of the format "Example Name ([email protected])" and other variations of this format.

ParseText is a helper function for parsing the text from the current element of the XMLPullParser.

StripCDATA removes CDATA tags from the string content outside of CDATA tags is passed via DecodeEntities.