Convertion of Entities.

Hi,
I have string which contains data posted through http.
Because of that the string contains HTML Entities like e.g. "&#32;" instead of "space".
Does anyone know a class or function module that can translate this into normal text.
Best Regards
- Rasmus

hi,
Pls have a look to this below mentioned FM.
I am Not sure about this one.
HRDSYS_CONVERT_FROM_HTML
regards,
raghu

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Hi,
I'm parsing XML with JDK 1.4.2 + SAX(Crimson).
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I made a simple SAX application to show the trouble.
The full codes are the followings,
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
public class SimpeXmlHandler extends DefaultHandler {
     private StringBuffer str = null;
     public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName,
               String qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {
          str = new StringBuffer();
     public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName)
               throws SAXException {
          if (str != null) {
               if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("tag")) {
                    System.out.println("tag=" + str.toString().trim());
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}The XML sample is,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
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</root>
After run SimpleXmlTest, the output was,
tag=a>b
The result isn't my want.
I don't want the parser converts the chars.
How to do?
P.S.
I also tried with DOM(Dom4J), it didn't work, too.
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a cup of Java, cheers!
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Edited by: Channa on Oct 25, 2011 6:40 AM

Hi Channa,
I should have mentioned it in the previous thread, a sound approach to the overall requirement would be to use object-relational storage for loading XML documents in the database.
You can read more here : http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14259/xdb03usg.htm#g1055369
However, that's not possible if we use the DUMP=ALL option to convert Forms files to XML because the generated files do not conform to the Forms XML schema.
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        , attribute item_type {local-name($i)}
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        , attribute parent_item_type {local-name($i/parent::*)}
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        , element value2 {substring($propval,4001,4000)}
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             , property_value2 varchar2(4000) path 'value2'
    ) x2
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;Edited by: odie_63 on 25 oct. 2011 17:03
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I'm currently in the middle of formatting my wife's novel into 'clean' html so I can use Calibre to create a well formatted epub/mobi/etc.
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I'm currently using Kate and I can't seem to find anything similar. Is anyone aware of any linux editors with the same function?
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