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You can try and use Apache's StringEscapeUtils, which has methods for these kind of things (specifically you need escapeXml method): <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-2.4/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html" rel="ugc nofollow">http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-2.4/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html</a><br />
The class is part of Apache's commons lang project, you can download it here:<a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/" rel="ugc">http://commons.apache.org/lang/</a>
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You can try and use Apache's StringEscapeUtils, which has methods for these kind of things (specifically you need escapeXml method): http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-2.4/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html [http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-2.4/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html]
The class is part of Apache's commons lang project, you can download it here:http://commons.apache.org/lang/ [http://commons.apache.org/lang/]

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We have a program which reads the data from database and generates XML messages<br />
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Some data items have special characters like &quot;A&amp;P&quot; , &quot;G &nbsp;E&quot;. Since these characters are not allowed as XML element names. CAn you some point me to a code snippet or library which <br />
takes a String and replaces all occurrences of &quot;&amp;&quot;, &quot;&nbsp;&quot;, &nbsp;&quot; &nbsp;&quot; with corresponding characters.<br />
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Example: The one on the left should be replaced with the one on the right<br />
&amp;&nbsp;--&gt; &quot;&quot;&nbsp;<br />
&quot;&nbsp; &quot;&nbsp; --&gt; _<br />

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We have a program which reads the data from database and generates XML messages

Some data items have special characters like "A&P" , "G  E". Since these characters are not allowed as XML element names. CAn you some point me to a code snippet or library which 
takes a String and replaces all occurrences of "&", " ",  "  " with corresponding characters.

Example: The one on the left should be replaced with the one on the right
& --> "" 
"  "  --> _


replacing XML Special Characters

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