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

A very simple but inefficient solution without any external library is:

public static String unescapeHtml3( String str ) {
    try {
        HTMLDocument doc = new HTMLDocument();
        new HTMLEditorKit().read( new StringReader( "" + str ), doc, 0 );
        return doc.getText( 1, doc.getLength() );
    } catch( Exception ex ) {
        return str;
    }
}

This should be use only if you have only small count of string to decode.