My question: Does the JDK come with a utility method which I can feed my Strings through, which will escape the characters that need escaping?
I don't know of anything built into the standard libraries... but, if open source is acceptable to you, the Jakarta Commons-Lang component has a StringEscapeUtils class that does exactly what you're asking for.
There are also at least a couple of other open source libraries that include that functionality.
http://www.jeffyjeffy.com/code/xbn_java/xbn_java/
is one.
HTH...
TTYL,
Phil
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