Replace all escape sequences with non-escaped equivalent strings in java

Question

I have a string like this:

<![CDATA[<ClinicalDocument>rest of CCD here</ClinicalDocument>]]>

I'd like to replace the escape sequences with their non-escaped characters, to end up with:

<![CDATA[<ClinicalDocument>rest of CCD here</ClinicalDocument>]]>

Answer 1

StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml() from commons-lang might be the thing you are looking for.