💭 Jsoup - Not able to identify escaped/unescaped html entity in the text nodes

[Muthukirthan]

Not able to identify whether the input document has & or & in the text node, since Jsoup escapes the character in text node. Same goes to other entities like </<.

This does not provide any control to the Jsoup users where they can take any action based on input. For example; If we want to remove < character in text node but preserve when given as entity <

Note: Please let me know if there is already a way to differentiate this.

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Providing an option where I could input Jsoup to not modify the text node will be super helpful. This provides more flexibility and control to the customers.

@jhy

[Muthukirthan]

Tried different methods in TextNode to get the original input text content, but did not worked.

Example:
Input: <p> actual_lt: < || escaped_lt: &lt; </p>

for (TextNode textNode : doc.selectFirst("p").textNodes()) {
    System.out.println("textNode.toString():-" + textNode.toString());
    System.out.println("textNode.text():-" + textNode.text());
    System.out.println("textNode.getWholeText():-" + textNode.getWholeText());
    System.out.println("textNode.outerHtml():-" + textNode.outerHtml());
}

Expected (in any one of the method): actual_lt: < || escaped_lt: &lt;
Output:

textNode.toString():-  actual_lt: <   ||   escaped_lt: <  
textNode.text():- actual_lt: < || escaped_lt: < 
textNode.getWholeText():-  actual_lt: <   ||   escaped_lt: <  
textNode.outerHtml():-  actual_lt: &lt;   ||   escaped_lt: &lt; 

@jhy