Here you can find the source of XMLEncode(String name)
This is a helper method which converts any spaces in a string to a legal underscore.
public static String XMLEncode(String name)
//package com.java2s; /*/*from w w w . j a va2 s .c o m*/ GASH 2 XMLUtils.java The Ganymede object storage system. Created: 21 February 2000 Module By: Jonathan Abbey, jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ganymede Directory Management System Copyright (C) 1996-2010 The University of Texas at Austin Contact information Web site: http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2 Author Email: ganymede_author@arlut.utexas.edu Email mailing list: ganymede@arlut.utexas.edu US Mail: Computer Science Division Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Austin PO Box 8029, Austin TX 78713-8029 Telephone: (512) 835-3200 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ public class Main { /** * <P>This is a helper method which converts any spaces in a string * to a legal underscore. Any underscores passed in will be converted * to a double underscore.</P> */ public static String XMLEncode(String name) { StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder(name.length()); for (int i = 0; i < name.length(); i++) { char c = name.charAt(i); if (c == '_') { buffer.append("__"); } else if (c == ' ') { buffer.append("_"); } else { buffer.append(c); } } return buffer.toString(); } }