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ASF GitHub Bot commented on TEXT-40:
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Github user SampannaKahu closed the pull request at:
https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/222
> Escape HTML characters only once
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> Key: TEXT-40
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEXT-40
> Project: Commons Text
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Sampanna Kahu
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: features, newbie
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> 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.
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