I'm building a small CMS-like application in Java, that takes a .txt file with shirt names/descriptions and loads the names/descriptions into an ArrayList of customShirts (small class I made). Then, it iterates through the ArrayList, and uses JSoup to parse a template (template.html) and insert the unique details of the shirt into the HTML. Finally, it pumps out each shirt into its own HTML file in an output folder.
When the descriptions are loaded into the ArrayList of customShirts, I replace all special characters with the appropriate character codes so they can be properly displayed (for example, replacing apostrophes with ’). The issue is, I've noticed that JSoup seems to automatically turn the character codes into the actual character, which is an issue, since I need the output to be displayable (which requires character codes). Is there anything I can do to fix this? I've looked at other workarounds, like at: Jsoup unescapes special characters, but they seem to require parsing the file before insertion with replaceAll, and I insert the character-code sensitive text with JSoup, which doesn't seem to make this an option.
Below is the code for the HTML generator I made:
public void generateShirtHTML(){
for(int i = 0; i < arrShirts.size(); i++){
File input = new File("html/template/template.html");
Document doc = null;
try {
doc = Jsoup.parse(input, "UTF-8", "");
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
Element title = doc.select("title").first();
title.append(arrShirts.get(i).nameToCapitalized());
Element headingTitle = doc.select("h1#headingTitle").first();
headingTitle.html(arrShirts.get(i).nameToCapitalized());
Element shirtDisplay = doc.select("p#alt1").first();
shirtDisplay.html(arrShirts.get(i).name);
Element descriptionBox = doc.select("div#descriptionbox p").first();
descriptionBox.html(arrShirts.get(i).desc);
System.out.println(arrShirts.get(i).desc);
PrintWriter output;
try {
output = new PrintWriter("html/output/" + arrShirts.get(i).URL);
output.println(doc.outerHtml());
//System.out.println(doc.outerHtml());
output.close();
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println("Shirt " + i + " HTML generated!");
}
}
Thanks in advance!
