Entity reference generator.

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+<?php
+/**
+ * Fetch the entities.json file and convert to PHP datastructure.
+ */
+
+// The URL to the official entities JSON file.
+$ENTITIES_URL = 'http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-html5-20121217/entities.json';
+
+$payload = file_get_contents($ENTITIES_URL);
+$json = json_decode($payload);
+
+$table = array();
+foreach ($json as $name => $obj) {
+  $sname = substr($name, 1, -1);
+  $table[$sname] = $obj->characters;
+}
+
+print '<?php
+$entities = ';
+var_export($table);
+print ';';
+//print serialize($table);