Comments on: Encode/Decode HTML in Java

By: Wouter Groeneveld

Wouter Groeneveld — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:33:59 +0000

Thanks, I was just looking for something like that – in Javascript you can use PrototypeJS’ string utility function escapeHTML() on a string itself.

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By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:42:57 +0000

You should also try using JSTL standard c:out tag. The c:out tag has an attribute escapeXml, which can be set to true and will escape >, <, ", '

Example:

By: jukty

jukty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:46:31 +0000

I mean “… to standart HTML entities like & …”

By: jukty

jukty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:45:14 +0000

JTidy is evil,
it also escapes spaces and number and everything else that is not letters so that the resulting string is totally unreadable.
Also it escapes to unicode form like &#xxxx; not to standart HTML entities like &.
So use only apache, it rules!

By: Meher

Meher — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:58:27 +0000

thank you robin thank you alls lol

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:18:18 +0000

FYI: I think JTidy is another way to do what you want.

By: robin

robin — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:56:27 +0000

URLDecoder and URLEncoder only deal with the URL. For exmaple, URLEncoder would encodes space to %20. However, escaping the HTML content is a different thing.

By: Jawed Ali

Jawed Ali — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:03:14 +0000

What about this class: java.net.URLDecoder

check out java docs, and I believe it is there for a long time.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/URLDecoder.html