Escape HTML and XML in Java

HTML and XML escape format is widely used in web and XML transactions.

There is a great utility for this purpose in Java world : Lang package in apache commons project

Download commons-lang and put the commons-lang-xxx.jar file in your classpath or in your project.

The StringEscapeUtils class is your key class here.

Use static escapeXml() , escapeHtml() , unescapeXml() , unescapeHtml() methods.

String escaped = StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml("");

Great & Lifesaving , thanks apache again !


Comments

Anonymous said…
Thanks
August 11, 2009 at 12:31 AM
Emre said…
Thanks a lot :)
December 29, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Anonymous said…
finally, someone who just tells you how to solve a problem! Thank you so much!
May 9, 2011 at 9:51 PM
Anonymous said…
Thank you. It is great help
Muhammad Ammad
June 14, 2011 at 10:41 PM
Anonymous said…
StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml() is fine if your text doesn't already include escaped characters.

However, if you try to escape the following string "This & That" you end up with "This & That".

In other words, it only performs a very simplistic search and replace of the ampersand character.
June 16, 2011 at 1:38 PM
Anonymous said…
Note that the browser translated the amp; into the ampersand character!
June 16, 2011 at 1:39 PM
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