Java XML Unescape unescapeXml(String input)

Description

Unescape all XML entity references characters from an escaped XML string

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
xml	Ecaped XML string representation

Return

Unescaped XML string representation

Declaration

public static final String unescapeXml(String input) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//  w  w w .  j av a2s .c om
 * #%L
 * =====================================================
 *   _____                _     ____  _   _       _   _
 *  |_   _|_ __ _   _ ___| |_  / __ \| | | | ___ | | | |
 *    | | | '__| | | / __| __|/ / _` | |_| |/ __|| |_| |
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 *    |_| |_|   \__,_|___/\__|\ \__,_|_| |_||___/|_| |_|
 *                             \____/
 * 
 * =====================================================
 * 
 * Hochschule Hannover
 * (University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hannover)
 * Faculty IV, Dept. of Computer Science
 * Ricklinger Stadtweg 118, 30459 Hannover, Germany
 * 
 * Email: trust@f4-i.fh-hannover.de
 * Website: http://trust.f4.hs-hannover.de/
 * 
 * This file is part of irond, version 0.5.3, implemented by the Trust@HsH
 * research group at the Hochschule Hannover.
 * %%
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 * 
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 * #L%
 */

public class Main {
    private static String unwanted[] = { "&", "<", ">", "\"", "'" };
    private static String replaceBy[] = { "&amp;", "&lt;", "&gt;", "&quot;", "&apos;" };

    /**
     * Unescape all XML entity references characters from
     * an escaped XML string
     *
     * @param xml Ecaped XML string representation
     * @return Unescaped XML string representation
     */
    public static final String unescapeXml(String input) {
        String ret = input;

        for (int i = 0; i < replaceBy.length; i++) {
            ret = ret.replace(replaceBy[i], unwanted[i]);
        }

        return ret;
    }
}

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