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

Spring Framework HtmlUtils

If you're using Spring framework already, use the following method:

import static org.springframework.web.util.HtmlUtils.htmlUnescape;

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String result = htmlUnescape(source);