Android XML String Escape escape(String input)

Description

Useful to replace the characters forbidden in xml by their escaped counterparts Ex: & -> &

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
input	the string to escape

Return

the escaped string

Declaration

public static String escape(String input) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*w  w w. j ava 2s . co m*/
 * Tomdroid
 * Tomboy on Android
 * http://www.launchpad.net/tomdroid
 * 
 * Copyright 2009, Benoit Garret <benoit.garret_launchpad@gadz.org>
 * 
 * This file is part of Tomdroid.
 * 
 * Tomdroid is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * Tomdroid is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with Tomdroid.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

public class Main {
    /**
     * Useful to replace the characters forbidden in xml by their escaped counterparts
     * Ex: &amp; -> &amp;amp;
     * 
     * @param input the string to escape
     * @return the escaped string
     */
    public static String escape(String input) {

        return input.replace("&", "&amp;").replace("<", "&lt;")
                .replace(">", "&gt;").replace("\"", "&quot;")
                .replace("\'", "&apos;");
    }
}

Related

1. toXMLString(String s)
2. xmlEscape(String xml)
3. escapeText(String rawText)
4. getXmlEncoded(String text)
5. encodeEntities(String content)
6. encodeEntities(String content)