Does JDOM come with any utility routines that will take a String and
make it XML safe? And also a routine that takes an XML safe encoding
and converts it back to a regular String?

i.e.

String -> XML Safe string -> String

"This" -> "This" -> "This" (no change needed)
"4+3<4+4" -> "4+3&lt;4+4" -> "4+3<4+4"

I only ask because I have some basic routines that do this, but they
only map the following:

>  &gt;
<  &lt;
&  &amp;
'   &apos;
"   &quot;

It currently doesn't deal with escaped character codes like &#039;

It seems that putting data into XML and getting it back from XML is so
common that there must be a general routine to do this rather than
having to rely on my own implementation.

Thanks,
David

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