HTMLEscaper

The HTMLEscaper class allows to:

• convert a text with HTML entities to be usable in XML
• convert a text characters to their corresponding HTML entities

Convert a text with HTML entities to be usable in XML

The HTMLEscaper.escapeToXML(String) method allows to convert a text with HTML entities to be usable in XML. HTML entities are converted to the associated XML content.

For example:

• The é or è text will be converted to The é or è text

The full HTMLEscaper.escapeToXML(String, boolean, boolean) method allow to:

• Optionally don't escape ">" and "<" characters
• Optionally don't escape in XML non ASCII characters

Convert a text with HTML entities to be usable in XML attributes

The HTMLEscaper.escapeXMLAttribute(String) method allows to use a text for XML attributes. It will:

• Convert the "<" character to &lt;
• Convert the ">" character to &gt;
• Convert the "&" character to &amp;
• Convert the quote character to &#39;
• Convert the double quote character to &#34;
• Convert the new line character to &#xA;. This conversion is very important because regular new line characters are discarded by XML parsers

Convert a text characters to their corresponding HTML entities

The HTMLEscaper.escapeToHTML(String) method allows to convert text characters to their corresponding HTML entities.

For example:

• The é or è text will be converted to The é or è text

List of supported HTML entities

See the htmlEntities file for the list of supported HTML entities^[1]

See the mateam.net/html-escape-characters page for the list of html escape characters

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