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Posted to j-users@xerces.apache.org by Bertrand Goupil <bg...@clever-age.com> on 2002/09/05 23:14:06 UTC
Re[2]: Character translations
Hello,
Maybe you can get your data with <![CDATA[<you'&data>]]>
You've got nothing to change!
cheers
DJ> Mark -
DJ> I wrote my own function to do that... perhaps there is a better way that someone can suggest, but this is what worked for me:
DJ> I wrote a class called StringHelper that does the conversion as follows:
DJ> ----------------------------------------------------
DJ> package abcdef.eai.utilities;
DJ> /**
DJ> * This utility class includes some (hopefully) useful String manipulation methods
DJ> * Creation date: (6/3/2002 1:03:36 PM)
DJ> * @author: James DePaul
DJ> */
DJ> public class StringHelper {
DJ> /**
DJ> * This is a static method. You can use it to search/replace values in an Input String, * i.e. String resultString = StringHandler.replaceString(inputString, "&", "&"); If the inputString
DJ> * contained a value "AT&T", the resultString would contain "AT&T"
DJ> *
DJ> * Creation date: (6/3/2002 1:06:13 PM)
DJ> * @return java.lang.StringBuffer - after all occurences of searchString have been replaced with instance(s) of replaceString
DJ> * @param inputString java.lang.String - the String to search
DJ> * @param searchString java.lang.String - the pattern to find in the inputString
DJ> * @param replaceString java.lang.String - the pattern to replace in the resulting return String
DJ> */
DJ> public static StringBuffer replaceString(String inputString, String searchString, String replaceString) {
DJ> int counter=0;
DJ> StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
DJ> // Spin through the whole inputString string replacing...
DJ> while (counter<inputString.length()) {
DJ> int x = inputString.indexOf(searchString,counter);
DJ> if (x > -1) {
DJ> sb.append(inputString.substring(counter,x));
DJ> sb.append(replaceString);
DJ> counter = x + searchString.length();
DJ> } else {
DJ> sb.append(inputString.substring(counter,inputString.length()));
DJ> counter = inputString.length() + 1;
DJ> }
DJ> }
DJ> return sb;
DJ> }
DJ> }
DJ> ----------------------------------------------------------------
DJ> You can then invoke this function in your code as follows:
DJ> StringBuffer workStringB;
DJ> // First properly encode XML Entity
DJ> workStringB = StringHelper.replaceString(inputXMLstring, "&", "&");
DJ> // Return 'clean' XML
DJ> String cleanXML = workStringB.toString();
DJ> ----------------------------------------------------------------
DJ> Good luck -
DJ> James
DJ> -----Original Message-----
DJ> From: mark.russel@pncbank.com [mailto:mark.russel@pncbank.com]
DJ> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 12:03 PM
DJ> To: xerces-j-user@xml.apache.org
DJ> Subject: Character translations
DJ> I have a servlet that takes input from users. part of the input can be <>
DJ> &"'. Is there a function I can run these input streams through to convert
DJ> them. (e.g. "corner of fifth & second" should look like this after run
DJ> through the translator function "corner of fifth & second")
DJ> thanks in advance.
DJ> Mark Russell
DJ> PNC
DJ> 412-768-9603
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