How to unescape HTML character entities in Java?

Question

Basically I would like to decode a given Html document, and replace all special chars, such as \" \" -> \" \", \">\" -

Answer 1

This did the job for me,

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils;
...
String decodedXML= StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml(encodedXML);

or

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils;
...
String decodedXML= StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml4(encodedXML);

I guess its always better to use the lang3 for obvious reasons. Hope this helps :)