[jira] [Updated] (LANG-1303) Escape HTML characters only once

["Sampanna Kahu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1303?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Sampanna Kahu updated LANG-1303:
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    Description: 
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 < 1000kg
Then the output of escapeHtml4() becomes:
100kg < 1000kg

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.

  was:
If already escaped HTML characters are in the input test, they get encoded again using StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml4().

For example:
If the input is:
100 kg < 1000kg
Then the output of escapeHtml4 becomes:
100kg < 1000kg

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.


> Escape HTML characters only once
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LANG-1303
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1303
>             Project: Commons Lang
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: lang.text.*
>            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 < 1000kg
> Then the output of escapeHtml4() becomes:
> 100kg < 1000kg
> 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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