de.saar.basic
Class XmlEntities

Object
  XmlEntities

public class XmlEntities
extends Object

A collection of functions for dealing with XML entities.

Author:

Alexander Koller

Constructor Summary

XmlEntities()

Method Summary

static String	decode(String s) Replaces XML entities (& etc.) by the corresponding characters.
static String	encode(String s) Replaces special characters (<, >, quotes, and &) with the XML entities.

Methods inherited from class Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

XmlEntities

public XmlEntities()

Method Detail

encode

public static String encode(String s)

Replaces special characters (<, >, quotes, and &) with the XML entities.

Parameters:

s - a string

Returns:

a string with the characters replaced by entities

decode

public static String decode(String s)
                     throws XmlDecodingException

Replaces XML entities (&amp; etc.) by the corresponding characters.

The implementation of this method was taken from Steven Brandt, "RegexRecipes", http://www.javaregex.com/RegexRecipesV1.pdf.

Parameters:

s - a string

Returns:

a string with the entities replaced by characters.

Throws:

XmlDecodingException - if the string contains an undefined character entity.