Question

I have a structure as this:

String xml = "<tag><another_tag>%s</another_tag></tag>"

and I pass a parameter to method and try to replace %s:

String str = String.format(xml, parameter);

But I have got previous xml file wrapped as a tag on the place of ‘%s’. If I set a simple String:

String str = String.format(xml, "parameter");

all works well.

Why does it happen?

Answer 1

As Pshemo says, this works fine:

String xml = "<tag><another_tag>%s</another_tag></tag>";        
String parameter = "abc";
String str = String.format(xml, parameter);
System.out.println(str); // <tag><another_tag>abc</another_tag></tag>