[jdom-interest] XML escaping and unescaping

[Jason Hunter]

XMLOutputter has escapeElementEntities() and escapeAttributeEntities() 
that do what you want and have a pluggaable EscapeStrategy to handle 
characters outside the selected output encoding.  We don't have code to 
do the reverse as we rely on XML parsers for that.

-jh-

d.wall at computer.org wrote:

> Does JDOM come with any utility routines that will take a String and 
> make it XML safe?  And also a routine that takes an XML safe encoding 
> and converts it back to a regular String?
> 
> i.e.
> 
> String -> XML Safe string -> String
> 
> "This" -> "This"  -> "This"  (no change needed)
> "4+3<4+4" -> "4+3&lt;4+4" -> "4+3<4+4"
> 
> I only ask because I have some basic routines that do this, but they 
> only map the following:
> 
>  >   &gt;
> <   &lt;
> &   &amp;
> '     &apos;
> "    &quot;
> 
> It currently doesn't deal with escaped character codes like &#039; 
> It seems that putting data into XML and getting it back from XML is so 
> common that there must be a general routine to do this rather than 
> having to rely on my own implementation.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
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