Android XML String Unescape xmlUnescape(String xml)

Description

Notice that this function only escape entity reference and not character reference.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
xml	a parameter

Return

the unescaped xml string.

Declaration

public static String xmlUnescape(String xml) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/**/* w  ww.j  a  v  a 2  s .  c  o  m*/
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public class Main {
    /**
     * Notice that this function only escape entity reference and not character reference.
     * @param xml
     * @return the unescaped xml string.
     */
    public static String xmlUnescape(String xml) {
        return xml.replaceAll("&lt;", "<").replaceAll("&gt;", ">")
                .replaceAll("&quot;", "\"").replaceAll("&apos;", "'")
                .replaceAll("&amp;", "&");
    }
}

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