character reference in java

[Andrew Welch <AW...@piper-group.com>]

Hi,

First, apologies for this shameless non-xalan-specific question, but it
is sort-of xml related...

The result of my transform contains character references (or numeric
entities as some seem to call them) such as:

Hello&_#160;world (underscore non-text mailers)

I sax parse this result and later show it in the title bar of dialog (in
java) however the &_#160; remains unresolved, the title bar contains the
literals characters &,#,1,6,0 and ;

Does java have any methods to resolve character references to the
equivalent character literal, so the that space correctly appears in the
title bar?  

I don't want to string parse it replacing &# with \u, but if that's the
only way...

cheers
andrew