diff -r 07b41fa8d1dd -r ca8a1b6995f6 tracefw/tracecompiler/src/com.nokia.tracecompiler/src/com/nokia/tracecompiler/decodeplugins/dictionary/encoder/XMLDataFilter.java
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/tracefw/tracecompiler/src/com.nokia.tracecompiler/src/com/nokia/tracecompiler/decodeplugins/dictionary/encoder/XMLDataFilter.java	Tue Aug 31 16:45:49 2010 +0300
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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2008 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:
+*
+* Replaces special characters with escape sequences 
+*
+*/
+package com.nokia.tracecompiler.decodeplugins.dictionary.encoder;
+
+/**
+ * Replaces special characters with escape sequences
+ * 
+ */
+class XMLDataFilter {
+
+	/**
+	 * XML start tag
+	 */
+	private static final String LEFT_ARROW = "<"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+
+	/**
+	 * XML end tag
+	 */
+	private static final String RIGHT_ARROW = ">"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+
+	/**
+	 * XML entity tag
+	 */
+	private static final String AMPERSAND = "&"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+
+	/**
+	 * XML start tag escaped
+	 */
+	private static final String LEFT_ARROW_SUBST = "&lt;"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+
+	/**
+	 * XML end tag escaped
+	 */
+	private static final String RIGHT_ARROW_SUBST = "&gt;"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+
+	/**
+	 * XML entity tag escaped
+	 */
+	private static final String AMPERSAND_SUBST = "&amp;"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+
+	/**
+	 * Not found result
+	 */
+	private static final int NOT_FOUND = -1;
+
+	/**
+	 * Changes XML data
+	 * 
+	 * @param data
+	 *            data to be changed
+	 * @return changed data
+	 */
+	static String changeData(String data) {
+
+		// This must be before any other that will add & marks to the text.
+		// Otherwise those will be replaced also.
+		if (data.indexOf(AMPERSAND) != NOT_FOUND) {
+			data = data.replaceAll(AMPERSAND, AMPERSAND_SUBST);
+		}
+		if (data.indexOf(LEFT_ARROW) != NOT_FOUND) {
+			data = data.replaceAll(LEFT_ARROW, LEFT_ARROW_SUBST);
+		}
+		if (data.indexOf(RIGHT_ARROW) != NOT_FOUND) {
+			data = data.replaceAll(RIGHT_ARROW, RIGHT_ARROW_SUBST);
+		}
+
+		return data;
+	}
+}