Is there a method in Java that allows me to replace all HTML special characters into their encoded equivelant?

I have a textfile which my Java program is modifying and putting into an HTML file for display.

Howev开发者_JAVA技巧er, this textfile contains lots of HTML unsafe characters such as "<" and the ">" which would need to be encoded into & gt; (sans space) and & lt;.

Is there some library method I can use to sanatize my text document to replace all these HTML special characters with their safe encoded equivelants?

Check out escapeHtml

If you want to build your own, it is fairly easy using the String replace method, you just need a list of targets and replacements, and bam, you're done.

replace(CharSequence target, CharSequence replacement)