diff -r 000000000000 -r a02c979e8dfd srcanaapps/depexplorer/com.nokia.s60tools.appdep/src/com/nokia/s60tools/appdep/export/StringUtils.java
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+++ b/srcanaapps/depexplorer/com.nokia.s60tools.appdep/src/com/nokia/s60tools/appdep/export/StringUtils.java	Sat Jan 09 10:04:11 2010 +0530
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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2006 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). 
+* All rights reserved.
+* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+* which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+*
+* Initial Contributors:
+* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+*
+* Contributors:
+*
+* Description:
+*
+*/
+
+
+package com.nokia.s60tools.appdep.export;
+
+
+/**
+ * String utilities used for character replacements 
+ * e.g. when creating XML reports.  
+ */
+public class StringUtils {
+
+	/**
+	 * Replaces those characters that are no allowed inside XML elements
+	 * with corresponding XML entities.
+	 * @param in string to replace forbidden characters from
+	 * @return string with forbidden characters replaced with corresponding entities.
+	 */
+	public static String replaceForbiddenCharacters(String in){
+		String out = in.replace("&","&"); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
+		out = out.replace("<","&#60;"); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
+		out = out.replace(">","&#62;"); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
+		out = out.replace("\"","&#34;"); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
+		out = out.replace("'","&#39;"); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
+			
+		return out;
+		
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Replaces given sub string with given replacement if found from the input string.
+	 * @param in input string used for replacement
+	 * @param replaceMe sub string to be replaced
+	 * @param replaceWith sub string used as replacement
+	 * @return string with all occurrences replace if found.
+	 */
+	public static String replace(String in, String replaceMe, String replaceWith){
+		String out = in.replace(replaceMe,replaceWith);			
+		return out;		
+	}	
+	
+}