com.topologi.diffx.xml
Class XMLUtils

java.lang.Object
  com.topologi.diffx.xml.XMLUtils

public final class XMLUtils
extends Object

A utility class for XML data.

Version:

2.0, 24 March 2004

Author:

Christophe Lauret

Method Summary

static String	escape(String s) Replaces characters which are invalid in element values, by the corresponding entity in a given String.
static String	escapeAttr(String s) Replace characters which are invalid in attribute values, by the corresponding entity in a given String.
static String	toElementName(String name) Return a valid element name from the given string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

escape

public static String escape(String s)

Replaces characters which are invalid in element values, by the corresponding entity in a given String.

these characters are:

• '&' by the ampersand entity "&amp"
• '<' by the entity "&lt;"

Empty strings or null return respectively "" and null.

Note: this function assumes that there are no entities in the given String. If there are existing entities, then the ampersand character will be escaped by the ampersand entity.

This method does not replaces " (by &quot;) which is an invalid character in attribute values.

Parameters:

s - The String to be parsed

Returns:

a valid string or empty if s is null or empty.

See Also:

escapeAttr(java.lang.String)

escapeAttr

public static String escapeAttr(String s)

Replace characters which are invalid in attribute values, by the corresponding entity in a given String.

these characters are:

• '&' by the ampersand entity "&amp"
• '<' by the entity "&lt;"
• ''' by the entity "&apos;"
• '"' by the entity "&quot;"

Empty strings or null return respectively "" and null.

Note: this function assumes that there are no entities in the given String. If there are existing entities, then the ampersand character will be escaped by the ampersand entity.

Parameters:

s - The String to be parsed

Returns:

a valid string or empty if s is null or empty.

toElementName

public static String toElementName(String name)

Return a valid element name from the given string.

Letters are put to lower case and other characters are replaced by hyphens. If the first character is not a letter it is replaced by 'x'.

Parameters:

name - The candidate element name

Returns:

A valid element name