Package com.epam.admintool

Class XMLHelper

java.lang.Object

com.epam.admintool.XMLHelper

public class XMLHelper
extends Object

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Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static String	protectSpecialCharacters(String originalUnprotectedString)	Returns the string where all non-ascii and <, &, > are encoded as numeric entities.
static String	restoreSpecialCharacters(String xml)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Details

protectSpecialCharacters

public static String protectSpecialCharacters(String originalUnprotectedString)

Returns the string where all non-ascii and <, &, > are encoded as numeric entities. I.e. "<A & B >" .... (insert result here). The result is safe to include anywhere in a text field in an XML-string. If there were no characters to protect, the original string is returned.

Parameters:

originalUnprotectedString - original string which may contain characters either reserved in XML or with different representation in different encodings (like 8859-1 and UFT-8)

Returns:

restoreSpecialCharacters

public static String restoreSpecialCharacters(String xml)