StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml

• Unescapes a string containing XML entity escapes to a string containing the actual Unicode characters corresponding to the escapes.
• Supports only the five basic XML entities (gt, lt, quot, amp, apos). Does not support DTDs or external entities.
• Note that numerical \\u unicode codes are unescaped to their respective unicode characters. This may change in future releases.

1.  package com.utilitySample;
2.  import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
3. 
   
4.  public class StringUtility {
5.  public static void main(String[] args) {
6.    String xmlString = "<data>";
7.    System.out.println("After escapeXml::"+StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml(xmlString));
8.    System.out.println("After unescapeXml::"+StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml(xmlString));
9. }
10.  }

 Output :

 After escapeXml::&lt;data&gt;
 After unescapeXml::<data>