Recommended method for escaping HTML in Java

Question

Is there a recommended way to escape <, >, \" and & characters when outputting HTML in plain Java code? (Other

Answer 1

For those who use Google Guava:

import com.google.common.html.HtmlEscapers;
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String source = "The less than sign (<) and ampersand (&) must be escaped before using them in HTML";
String escaped = HtmlEscapers.htmlEscaper().escape(source);