Java HTML Unescape unescapeHTML(String str)

Description

escapes the 5 special html chars - see http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static String unescapeHTML(String str) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from   ww w. ja va2s.c o  m*/
 * Copyright (C) 2012 The Stanford MobiSocial Laboratory
 * 
 * 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 {
    /**
     * escapes the 5 special html chars - see
     * http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp
     */
    public static String unescapeHTML(String str) {
        if (str == null)
            return null;

        // these are the 5 special xml chars according to
        // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
        str = str.replace("&", "&");
        str = str.replace("'", "'");
        str = str.replace(""", "\"");
        str = str.replace("&lt;", "<");
        str = str.replace("&gt;", ">");
        str = str.replace("\u0095", "."); // remove the damn bullets. // TODO:
        // should use \d format instead to
        // avoid the special char itself.
        return str;
    }
}

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