Example usage for org.springframework.web.util HtmlCharacterEntityDecoder HtmlCharacterEntityDecoder

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In this page you can find the example usage for org.springframework.web.util HtmlCharacterEntityDecoder HtmlCharacterEntityDecoder.

Prototype

public HtmlCharacterEntityDecoder(HtmlCharacterEntityReferences characterEntityReferences, String original) 

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Usage

From source file:org.springframework.web.util.HtmlUtils.java

/**
 * Turn HTML character references into their plain text UNICODE equivalent.
 * <p>Handles complete character set defined in HTML 4.01 recommendation
 * and all reference types (decimal, hex, and entity).
 * <p>Correctly converts the following formats:
 * <blockquote>/*from ww  w . ja v  a 2 s  .co  m*/
 * &amp;#<i>Entity</i>; - <i>(Example: &amp;amp;) case sensitive</i>
 * &amp;#<i>Decimal</i>; - <i>(Example: &amp;#68;)</i><br>
 * &amp;#x<i>Hex</i>; - <i>(Example: &amp;#xE5;) case insensitive</i><br>
 * </blockquote>
 * Gracefully handles malformed character references by copying original
 * characters as is when encountered.<p>
 * <p>Reference:
 * <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html">
 * http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html
 * </a>
 * @param input the (escaped) input string
 * @return the unescaped string
 */
public static String htmlUnescape(String input) {
    if (input == null) {
        return null;
    }
    return new HtmlCharacterEntityDecoder(characterEntityReferences, input).decode();
}

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