decoding html in java

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IgorD - 20 Jan 2006 15:16 GMT

I have a regular html document that encodes certain characters. For
example a quote " is represented as " and a greater sing > is >
and so on.

I am looking for a java API to automatically decode this back. This
seems like something that should be outthere but so far I could not
findd it anywhere. I would appreaciate if you could advise me on where
to find an HTML decoder to do that. Thanks

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Martin - 20 Jan 2006 19:22 GMT

Did you look at java.util.regex.Pattern and java.util.regex.Matcher?

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Roedy Green - 20 Jan 2006 21:27 GMT

>I am looking for a java API to automatically decode this back

see http://mindprod.com/products1.html#ENTITIES

it will take entities out or put them back. It will also strip tags
leaving your raw text. Putting them back is more problematic. :-)

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