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Rob Tompkins resolved TEXT-40. ------------------------------ Resolution: Implemented Pulled in with minor changes the pull request number 23 listed above > Escape HTML characters only once > -------------------------------- > > Key: TEXT-40 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-40 > Project: Commons Text > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Sampanna Kahu > Assignee: Rob Tompkins > Priority: Minor > Labels: features, newbie > > If already escaped HTML characters are in the input test, they get escaped > again using StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml4(). > For example: > If the input is: > 100 kg & l t ; 1000kg <without the spaces> > Then the output of escapeHtml4() becomes: > 100kg & amp ; l t ; 1000kg <without the spaces> > At my workplace, we felt the need for a method in StringEscapeUtils which > does not escape already escaped characters. > I have attempted to create this method. Creating a pull request soon. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)