decoding html in java

[IgorD]

I have a regular html document that encodes certain characters. For
example a quote " is represented as " and a greater sing > is >
and so on.

I am looking for a java API to automatically decode this back. This
seems like something that should be outthere but so far I could not
findd it anywhere. I would appreaciate if you could advise me on where
to find an HTML decoder to do that. Thanks

 

[Martin]

Did you look at java.util.regex.Pattern and java.util.regex.Matcher?

 

[Roedy Green]

I am looking for a java API to automatically decode this back

see http://mindprod.com/products1.html#ENTITIES

it will take entities out or put them back. It will also strip tags
leaving your raw text. Putting them back is more problematic.