Class HtmlEntityEscapeUtil


  • public class HtmlEntityEscapeUtil
    extends Object
    Portions of this class copied from Apache commons-lang StringEscapeUtils -- it was easier to copy the relevant bits than it was to upgrade commons-lang to 2.0 :)

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    • Constructor Detail

      • HtmlEntityEscapeUtil

        public HtmlEntityEscapeUtil()
    • Method Detail

      • unEscapeHtmlEntities

        public static void unEscapeHtmlEntities​(StringBuffer buf)
        unEscapes Html Entities. Optimised such that it won't continue forever to find a matching ; for a & The max length is currently set to 9 (as the longest key is actually 8 (thetasym) + room for ;)
        Parameters:
        buf - StringBuffer of text to be unencoded.
      • safeParseInt

        public static int safeParseInt​(char[] chars,
                                       int start,
                                       int end,
                                       int radix)
        Parses the value of the range of characters in chars as an integer, based on a radix. chars is a fixed length char[] that may have &, &x etc at the begin which need to be skipped.
        Parameters:
        chars - char[] containing the integer value for a character
        start - int start of the value to parse
        end - int end of the value to parse
        radix - int either 10 or 16 based on & vs &x
        Returns:
        int the value for the character we need to escape