Java HTML Encode textToHtml(String text)

Description

Converts plaintext to HTML, preserving whitespace semantics as much as possible.

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String textToHtml(String text) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from   w w w. j  av a 2  s . co m*/
 * DomUtils.java
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2009-12 by RStudio, Inc.
 *
 * Unless you have received this program directly from RStudio pursuant
 * to the terms of a commercial license agreement with RStudio, then
 * this program is licensed to you under the terms of version 3 of the
 * GNU Affero General Public License. This program is distributed WITHOUT
 * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, INCLUDING THOSE OF NON-INFRINGEMENT,
 * MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Please refer to the
 * AGPL (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt) for more details.
 *
 */

public class Main {
    /**
     * Converts plaintext to HTML, preserving whitespace semantics
     * as much as possible.
     */
    public static String textToHtml(String text) {
        // Order of these replacement operations is important.
        return text.replaceAll("&", "&amp;").replaceAll("<", "&lt;").replaceAll(">", "&gt;")
                .replaceAll("\\n", "<br />").replaceAll("\\t", "    ").replaceAll(" ", "&nbsp;")
                .replaceAll("&nbsp;(?!&nbsp;)", " ").replaceAll(" $", "&nbsp;").replaceAll("^ ", "&nbsp;");
    }
}

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