Java XML Quote quoteXML(String string)

Description

Quotes XML special characters and characters above 127 in the specified string.

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String quoteXML(String string) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//w  ww .  j a va  2  s  . c  o  m
 * The MIT License (MIT)
 * 
 * Copyright (c) 2010 Technische Universitaet Berlin
 * 
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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 * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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 * THE SOFTWARE.
 */

public class Main {
    /**
     * Quotes XML special characters and characters above 127 in the specified string.
     */

    public static String quoteXML(String string) {
        StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
        for (char c : string.toCharArray()) {
            if (c == '<')
                buffer.append("&lt;");
            else if (c == '>')
                buffer.append("&gt;");
            else if (c == '&')
                buffer.append("&amp;");
            else if (c < 128)
                buffer.append(c);
            else
                buffer.append("&#" + (int) c + ";");
        }
        return buffer.toString();
    }
}

Related

1. quoteXML(String string)
2. quoteXML(String xmlFragment)
3. quoteXmlContent(String x)
4. quoteXMLValue(final Object o)