public static final String decode ( String str ) { Matcher m = ENT . matcher ( str ) ; StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer ( ) ; while ( m . find ( ) ) { String entity = m . group ( 1 ) ; Matcher m2 = HENT . matcher ( entity ) ; Integer codePoint = null ; if ( m2 . matches ( ) ) { codePoint = Integer . parseInt ( m2 . group ( 1 ) ) ; } else { codePoint = codePointMap . get ( entity ) ; } if ( codePoint == null ) { m . appendReplacement ( sb , m . group ( ) ) ; } else { String s = new String ( new int [ ] { codePoint . intValue ( ) } , 0 , 1 ) ; m . appendReplacement ( sb , s ) ; } } m . appendTail ( sb ) ; return sb . toString ( ) ; }
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