Regex: Escaping in HTML

Hi All,
I need to escape certain characters on our jsp pages to make them w3c compliant.
The characters I need to escape are
" to " < to < > to > & to & (but not when & is followed by # (eg &# would NOT be escaped).
EG
Raw: John & Mary are > then Sam & Helen but < George & Michelle -- 橖
Converted: John & Mary are & gt; then Sam & Helen but & lt; George & Michelle --- ;橖 I've tried to use PerlUtils but to no avail (cannot work out how to tell it not to escape the &# sequence).
Can you guys help me with to accomplish this with javas regex package (or with 1.4 String class)??
Thanks!

Thanks Uncle Alice! You are the regexp king (or queen?)Of the two, "king" would be more appropriate, but I really prefer "poobah". :-)
I've been writing java apps for 5 years now and I have never touched
regex. I did do some google'ing but really couldnt find real examples
that were easy to follow.I know what you mean. This site has a pretty good tutorial, but the examples are a bit too abstract. I was hoping the Habibi book from APress would fill that void (it was originally titled Real World Regular Expressions with Java), but poor examples turned out to be the least of its problems. Your best bet is still Friedl's book -- good examples are the least of its virtues.

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