Question

I’m cleaning some text from unwanted HTML tags (such as <script>) by using

String clean = Jsoup.clean(someInput, Whitelist.basicWithImages());

The problem is that it replaces for instance å with å (which causes troubles for me since it’s not “pure xml”).

For example

Jsoup.clean("hello å <script></script> world", Whitelist.basicWithImages())

yields

"hello å  world"

but I would like

"hello å  world"

Is there a simple way to achieve this? (I.e. simpler than converting å back to å in the result.)

Answer 1

You can configure Jsoup’s escaping mode: Using EscapeMode.xhtml will give you output w/o entities.

Here’s a complete snippet that accepts str as input, and cleans it using Whitelist.simpleText():

// Parse str into a Document
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(str);

// Clean the document.
doc = new Cleaner(Whitelist.simpleText()).clean(doc);

// Adjust escape mode
doc.outputSettings().escapeMode(EscapeMode.xhtml);

// Get back the string of the body.
str = doc.body().html();