Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you 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. */ import java.text.CharacterIterator; import java.text.StringCharacterIterator; public class Main { /** * Escape characters for text appearing as XML data, between tags. * <P/> * The following characters are replaced with corresponding character entities : * '<' to '<'; * '>' to '>'; * '&' to '&' * '"' to '"' * "'" to "'" * <P/> * Note that JSTL's {@code <c:out>} escapes the exact same set of characters as this method. */ public static String escapeCharsForXML(String aText) { final StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(); final StringCharacterIterator iterator = new StringCharacterIterator(aText); char character = iterator.current(); while (character != CharacterIterator.DONE) { if (character == '<') { result.append("<"); } else if (character == '>') { result.append(">"); } else if (character == '\"') { result.append("""); } else if (character == '\'') { result.append("'"); } else if (character == '&') { result.append("&"); } else { // the char is not a special one // add it to the result as is result.append(character); } character = iterator.next(); } return result.toString(); } }