001/*
002 * Copyright (C) 2009 The Guava Authors
003 *
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014
015package com.google.common.html;
016
017import com.google.common.annotations.GwtCompatible;
018import com.google.common.escape.Escaper;
019import com.google.common.escape.Escapers;
020
021/**
022 * {@code Escaper} instances suitable for strings to be included in HTML attribute values and
023 * <em>most</em> elements' text contents. When possible, avoid manual escaping by using templating
024 * systems and high-level APIs that provide autoescaping.
025 * One Google-authored templating system available for external use is <a
026 * href="https://developers.google.com/closure/templates/">Closure Templates</a>.
027 *
028 * <p>HTML escaping is particularly tricky: For example, <a
029 * href="https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#h-6.2">some elements' text contents must not be HTML
030 * escaped</a>. As a result, it is impossible to escape an HTML document correctly without
031 * domain-specific knowledge beyond what {@code HtmlEscapers} provides. We strongly encourage the
032 * use of HTML templating systems.
033 *
034 * @author Sven Mawson
035 * @author David Beaumont
036 * @since 15.0
037 */
038@GwtCompatible
039public final class HtmlEscapers {
040  /**
041   * Returns an {@link Escaper} instance that escapes HTML metacharacters as specified by <a
042   * href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/">HTML 4.01</a>. The resulting strings can be used both in
043   * attribute values and in <em>most</em> elements' text contents, provided that the HTML
044   * document's character encoding can encode any non-ASCII code points in the input (as UTF-8 and
045   * other Unicode encodings can).
046   *
047   * <p><b>Note:</b> This escaper only performs minimal escaping to make content structurally
048   * compatible with HTML. Specifically, it does not perform entity replacement (symbolic or
049   * numeric), so it does not replace non-ASCII code points with character references. This escaper
050   * escapes only the following five ASCII characters: {@code '"&<>}.
051   */
052  public static Escaper htmlEscaper() {
053    return HTML_ESCAPER;
054  }
055
056  // For each xxxEscaper() method, please add links to external reference pages
057  // that are considered authoritative for the behavior of that escaper.
058
059  private static final Escaper HTML_ESCAPER =
060      Escapers.builder()
061          .addEscape('"', "&quot;")
062          // Note: "&apos;" is not defined in HTML 4.01.
063          .addEscape('\'', "&#39;")
064          .addEscape('&', "&amp;")
065          .addEscape('<', "&lt;")
066          .addEscape('>', "&gt;")
067          .build();
068
069  private HtmlEscapers() {}
070}