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Class CharEntityReference

java.lang.Object
oracle.i18n.net.CharEntityReference

public class CharEntityReference

extends Object

The CharEntityReference class is a utility class to escape or unescape a string into a character reference or an entity reference form.

Character reference refers to a specific character in the ISO/IEC 10646 character set in the following representation:

  CharRef ::= '&#' [0-9]+ ';' | '&#x' [0-9a-fA-F]+ ';'
  

Entity reference refers to the content of the named entity of the form '&XXX;', where XXX represents the name of the entity. These names are defined in XML and HTML standards.

In escape operations, the entities 'amp', lt', 'gt', 'apos', and 'quot' are used as NAMED entity references. DECIMAL or HEXADECIMAL character references are used for other characters.

In unescape operations, 'amp', 'lt', 'gt', 'apos', 'quot', and all entity references defined in HTML 4.01 are recognized in order to convert back to the original characters.

See Also:

HTML 4.01 Specification, Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition)

Nested Class Summary

static class

CharEntityReference.Form Form parameter class that specifies the escaped form.

Method Summary

static String	escape(String srcstr) Escapes a string into the character entity reference in the NAMED_DECIMAL_NUMBER form assuming the WE8ISO8859P1 character set.
static String	escape(String srcstr, String dstCharset) Escapes a string into the character entity reference in the NAMED_DECIMAL_NUMBER form.
static String	escape(String srcstr, String dstCharset, CharEntityReference.Form form) Escapes a string into the character entity reference form.
static String	unescape(String srcstr) Converts an escaped string into a Unicode string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

escape

public static String escape(String srcstr)

Escapes a string into the character entity reference in the NAMED_DECIMAL_NUMBER form assuming the WE8ISO8859P1 character set.

Default character set is WE8ISO8859P1, and the default form is the NAMED_DECIMAL_NUMBER form. Some characters are escaped in the named entity, for example, < for '<'. Other characters are escaped in the hexadecimal form if they are not supported by the given character set.

Parameters:

srcstr - a string to be escaped

Returns:

an escaped string

Throws:

IllegalStateException - if WE8ISO8859P1 is not supported

See Also:

CharEntityReference.escape(String, String, CharEntityReference.Form)

escape

public static String escape(String srcstr,
                            String dstCharset)
                     throws UnsupportedEncodingException

Escapes a string into the character entity reference in the NAMED_DECIMAL_NUMBER form.

The default form is the NAMED_DECIMAL_NUMBER form. Some characters are escaped in the named entity, for example, < for '<'. Other characters are escaped in the hexadecimal form if they are not supported by the given character set.

Parameters:

srcstr - a string to be escaped

dstCharset - an Oracle character set name

Returns:

an escaped string

Throws:

UnsupportedEncodingException - if the dstCharset is a invalid character set name

See Also:

CharEntityReference.escape(String, String, CharEntityReference.Form)

escape

public static String escape(String srcstr,
                            String dstCharset,
                            CharEntityReference.Form form)
                     throws UnsupportedEncodingException

Escapes a string into the character entity reference form. Aside from characters not supported by the given character set in either the DECIMAL_NUMBER or HEXADECIMAL_NUMBER form, the following characters will be escaped in either the NAMED, DECIMAL_NUMBER, or HEXADECIMAL_NUMBER forms:

• < - Less than sign (U+003C)
• > - Greater than sign (U+003E)
• & - Ampersand (U+0026)
• ' - Apostrophe (U+0027)
• " - Quotation mark (U+0022)

Parameters:

srcstr - a string to be escaped

dstCharset - an Oracle character set name

form - a form of character entity reference

Returns:

an escaped string

Throws:

UnsupportedEncodingException - if the dstCharset parameter is an invalid character set name

unescape

public static String unescape(String srcstr)

Converts an escaped string into a Unicode string.

Parameters:

srcstr - a string containing escaped characters

Returns:

a string representing the original data

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if unregistered character entity reference is used

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