How to prevent Jsoup from unescaping html?

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I am parsing an html string with Jsoup in order to extract just the text, and want to get the exact text, but when I parse strings that include escaped chars Jsoup unescapes them. For example - if I parse

<p>Let's try</p>

Jsoup returns

<p>Let's try</p>

I searched extensively for a solution and tried using the doc.outputSettings with different options of charset and escapeMode, but couldn't get Jsoup to not escape the html special chars

Why does it matter? The HTML has exactly the same meaning either way. — Quentin
– Quentin, Commented Jun 27, 2021 at 12:17
After extracting the text I am running some manipulations on it, then I want to find and replace in the original string. Because of the unescaping I can't find the extracted text — Adi Gutner
– Adi Gutner, Commented Jun 27, 2021 at 12:55

A_A · Accepted Answer · 2021-06-27 12:05:17Z

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Judging from this comment and the current EscapeMode documentation, this is not possible with Jsoup.

I'm never going to implement EscapeMode.none as it only leads to broken parse trees.

answered Jun 27, 2021 at 12:05

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