Talk:How to perform HTML entity encoding in Java

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Needs review

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 * Dave Read

General Discussion
The Apache Jakarta Commons Lang package (as of version 2.2) contains a StringEscapeUtils class that contains this functionality. See the escapeHtml(String) method. The documentation states:

Escapes the characters in a String using HTML entities.

Supports all known HTML 4.0 entities, including funky accents. Note that the commonly used apostrophe escape character (&apos;) is not a legal entity and so is not supported).