Java Programming

Hi folks,

I am facing a problem and I hope there is a simple solution.

I am working with an XML document. I am setting the XML tag names dynamically. I just realized that the input strings contains characters that are not allowed under XML.

Is there a simple way to convert the input String to a "safe" XML string and then re-convert it back?

I need just two functions:

String MySafeXMLString = ConvertToSafe ( myUnsafeXMLString)
String myUnsafeXMLString = ConvertToUnsafe ( MySafeXMLString)

.. IE I just need a function to translate a generic string to an acceptable XML string and then convert it back at a later time.

Please help.

Thanks.

Dwight