Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Copyright 2013, 2016 Nationale-Nederlanden Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ public class Main { /** * Translates the five reserved XML characters (< > & " ') to their normal selves */ public static String decodeChars(String string) { StringBuilder decoded = new StringBuilder(); boolean inEscape = false; int escapeStartPos = 0; for (int i = 0; i < string.length(); i++) { char cur = string.charAt(i); if (inEscape) { if (cur == ';') { inEscape = false; String escapedString = string.substring(escapeStartPos, i + 1); char unEscape = unEscapeString(escapedString); if (unEscape == 0x0) { decoded.append(escapedString); } else { decoded.append(unEscape); } } } else { if (cur == '&') { inEscape = true; escapeStartPos = i; } else { decoded.append(cur); } } } if (inEscape) { decoded.append(string.substring(escapeStartPos)); } return decoded.toString(); } private static char unEscapeString(String str) { if (str.equalsIgnoreCase("<")) return '<'; else if (str.equalsIgnoreCase(">")) return '>'; else if (str.equalsIgnoreCase("&")) return '&'; else if (str.equalsIgnoreCase(""")) return '\"'; else if (str.equalsIgnoreCase("'") || str.equalsIgnoreCase("'")) return '\''; else return 0x0; } }