com.oopreserch.web
Class EscapeForXml

java.lang.Object
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All Implemented Interfaces:

FormValueEscaper

public class EscapeForXml

extends java.lang.Object

implements FormValueEscaper

The implementation of FormValueEscaper interface. Replace the special characters with the escaped ones.

If the String with the special characters (such as < or >) is inserted into the XML, the concatenated String will be invalid as the XML. To avoid this kind of problems, the String should be escaped before it is inserted into the XML tags.

This class replaces the special characters for XML. The table below lists the special characters and their corresponding escaped characters:

Original Character	Escaped Character
<	&lt;
>	&gt;
&	&amp;
"	&quot;
'	&apos;

The implementations for HTML, HDML and WML are also included in this package. They are:

• EscapeForHtml
• EscapeForHdml
• EscapeForWml

All the available implementations of this interface must be defined in:

• (docBase)/WEB-INF/classes/FormValueEscaperFactory.properties

In this property resource file, the value is the fully qualified class name of each implementation. The corresponding key is the arbitrary String, and you can specify it as the value of escape.type attribute in d.value element in the XML. For details about this property resource file, please look into FormValueEscaperFactory.

Author:

Jun Inamori

Constructor Summary

EscapeForXml()

Method Summary

java.lang.String

getEscaped(java.lang.String org) Escape the special characters for XML.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EscapeForXml

public EscapeForXml()

Method Detail

getEscaped

public java.lang.String getEscaped(java.lang.String org)

Escape the special characters for XML.

Specified by:

getEscaped in interface FormValueEscaper

Parameters:

org - The original String

Returns:

The escaped String