Prevent JSOUP from unencoding attribute values

Question

I have code, somewhat, like this

String str = "<element data=\"some &lt;data&gt;\"> &gt;foo&lt; </element>";

Document doc = Jsoup.parse(str, "", Parser.xmlParser());

But JSOUP unencodes data's value, producing something like this

<element value="some <data>">
  &gt;foo&lt;
</element>

How do I prevent JSOUP from unencoding attribute values?

Answer 1

You're hitting a known issue of Jsoup (1.8.3 as of this writing).

See here for details: https://github.com/jhy/jsoup/issues/55

The issue has been posted on December 27 2010... nearly 5 years before your question. I hope the upvotes on it will help raising attention to it.

UPDATE
Jsoup author has closed the issue as WON'T FIX.