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 ExCoder is a small Elixir library for encoding and decoding HTML entities. I
 decided to write it because I needed to decode HTML entities (without caring
-about the mess of parsing HTML) and I did not want to learn Erlang XML
-libraries.
+about the mess of parsing HTML) and I did not want to use a full XML library
+from the Erlang side.
 
 ExCoder supports both decoding named and numbered HTML entities. Encoding will
-always use the decimal numbered format.
+always use the hexadecimal numbered format.