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Interface XmlEntityExpander

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultXmlEntityExpander

public interface XmlEntityExpander

Since:

4.0

Method Summary

java.lang.String

expandEntities(java.lang.String text) Expand all XML entities encountered in the supplied String.

Method Detail

expandEntities

java.lang.String expandEntities(java.lang.String text)

Expand all XML entities encountered in the supplied String.

Parameters:

text - a string containing entities that you require to expand to their characters.

Returns:

a string where xml entity references have been resolved.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - if the text is a XML (or invalid XML - say it contains an < character without a closing >)