Replacing characters in a non well-formed XML body
- by ryanprayogo
In a (Java) code that I'm working on, I sometimes deal with a non well-formed XML (represented as a Java String), such as:
<root>
<foo>
bar & baz < quux
</foo>
</root>
Since this XML will eventually need to be unmarshalled (using JAXB), obviously this XML as is will throw exception upon unmarshalling.
What's the best way to replace the & and the < to its character entities? For &, it's as easy as:
xml.replaceAll("&", "&")
However, for the < symbol, it's a bit tricky since obviously I don't want to replace the < that's used for the XML tag opening 'bracket'.
Other than scanning the string and manually replacing < in the XML body with <, what other option can you suggest?
