Android HTML String Escape escapeHtml(String html)

Description

See: http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=96

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static String escapeHtml(String html) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.text.CharacterIterator;

import java.text.StringCharacterIterator;

public class Main {
    /**
     * See:  http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=96
     */
    public static String escapeHtml(String html) {
        final StringBuilder escapedHtml = new StringBuilder();
        final StringCharacterIterator iterator = new StringCharacterIterator(
                html);
        char character = iterator.current();
        while (character != CharacterIterator.DONE) {
            if (character == '<') {
                escapedHtml.append("&lt;");
            } else if (character == '>') {
                escapedHtml.append("&gt;");
            } else if (character == '\"') {
                escapedHtml.append("&quot;");
            } else if (character == '\'') {
                escapedHtml.append("&#039;");
            } else if (character == '&') {
                escapedHtml.append("&amp;");
            } else {
                //the char is not a special one
                //add it to the result as is
                escapedHtml.append(character);
            }
            character = iterator.next();
        }
        return escapedHtml.toString();
    }
}

Related

1. stripHTMLTags(String textToStrip)
2. checkHtmlView(String strString)
3. toHTMLString(String s)
4. isHTML(String s)