Java Regex String Replace HTML replaceHtmlEntities(final String text)

Description

Replaces HTML entities such as ̣ with the corresponding characters.

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static String replaceHtmlEntities(final String text) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright 2016/*from w  w w .j  av  a2 s. c om*/
 * Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab
 * Technische Universit?t Darmstadt
 * 
 * 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.
 ******************************************************************************/

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Main {
    private static final Pattern HTML_ENTITIES = Pattern.compile("^(.*?)&#(\\d+);");

    /** Replaces HTML entities such as ̣ with the corresponding 
     *  characters. */
    public static String replaceHtmlEntities(final String text) {
        String t = text;
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
        do {
            Matcher matcher = HTML_ENTITIES.matcher(t);
            if (matcher.find()) {
                result.append(matcher.group(1));
                result.append((char) Integer.parseInt(matcher.group(2)));
                t = matcher.replaceFirst("");
            } else
                break;
        } while (true);
        result.append(t);
        //      if (!text.equals(result.toString()))
        //         System.out.println(">" + text + "< to >" + result.toString() + "<");
        return result.toString();
    }
}

Related

1. removeTags(String html)
2. removeTags(String input, List knownTagList)
3. removeTags(String string)
4. replaceHtml(String html)
5. replaceHtml(String html)
6. replaceHtmlEntities(String aText, boolean preserveFormatting)
7. replaceTags(String payload, Map tags)
8. replaceTags(String str, Map tags)
9. replaceTagsUnlessAnchorTagFound(String wikiString, String searchPattern, String replacementPattern)