[jira] [Moved] (TEXT-40) Escape HTML characters only once

["Pascal Schumacher (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-40?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Pascal Schumacher moved LANG-1303 to TEXT-40:
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    Component/s:     (was: lang.text.*)
       Workflow: jira  (was: Default workflow, editable Closed status)
            Key: TEXT-40  (was: LANG-1303)
        Project: Commons Text  (was: Commons Lang)

> Escape HTML characters only once
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: TEXT-40
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-40
>             Project: Commons Text
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Sampanna Kahu
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: features, newbie
>
> If already escaped HTML characters are in the input test, they get escaped again using StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml4().
> For example:
> If the input is:
> 100 kg & l t ; 1000kg <without the spaces>
> Then the output of escapeHtml4() becomes:
> 100kg & amp ; l t ; 1000kg <without the spaces>
> At my workplace, we felt the need for a method in StringEscapeUtils which does not escape already escaped characters.
> I have attempted to create this method. Creating a pull request soon.



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