Question

I am getting a lot of data from a webservice containing xml entity references. While replacing those with the respective characters I am getting an out of memory error. Can anybody give an example of how to avoid that? I have been stuck for two days on this problem.

This is my code:

public  String decodeXMLData(String s)
 {
     s = s.replaceAll(">",">");
     System.out.println("string value is"+s);

     s = s.replaceAll("&lt;", "<"); 
     System.out.println("string value1 is"+s);
     s = s.replaceAll("&amp;", "&");

     s = s.replaceAll("&quot;", "\"");

      s = s.replaceAll("&apos;", "'");

      s = s.replaceAll("&nbsp;", " ");

     return s;
 } 

Answer 1

Take a look at Apache Commons Lang | StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml.