Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* * See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional * information regarding copyright ownership. * * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of * the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This software 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 * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. */ public class Main { /** * XML comment does not support some characters inside its content but there is no official escaping/unescaping for * it so we made our own. * <p> * <ul> * <li>1) Escape existing \</li> * <li>2) Escape --</li> * <li>3) Add "\" (unescaped as "") at the end if the last char is -</li> * </ul> * * @param content the XML comment content to escape * @return the escaped content. * @since 1.9M2 */ public static String escapeXMLComment(String content) { StringBuffer str = new StringBuffer(content.length()); char[] buff = content.toCharArray(); char lastChar = 0; for (char c : buff) { if (c == '\\') { str.append('\\'); } else if (c == '-' && lastChar == '-') { str.append('\\'); } str.append(c); lastChar = c; } if (lastChar == '-') { str.append('\\'); } return str.toString(); } }