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Simple / Direct / Heredoc way to build HTML string in Java

In python, I can build an HTML string without worrying about escaping special characters such as <or "by simply inserting the string in triple quotes like:

html_string = """ <html> <body> <p>My text with "quotes" and whatnot!<p> </body> </html> """

Is there a similar way to do this in Java?

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Apr 20 2018-10-20T00:
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This cannot be done in Java, as in Python. However, if you are using Eclipse, go to Window-> Preferences-> Java-> Editor-> Typing. The last checkbox is "Escape text when pasting into a string literal." Check this. Now when you insert when the cursor is between quotation marks, it will be escaped.

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Apr 20 '10 at 21:00
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No, but some tools avoid it for you when you insert it, for example in eclipse.

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Apr 20 2018-10-20T00:
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For this purpose , Java server pages do the trick even without the """ triplex :-)

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Apr 20 '10 at 20:59
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In Java source code, the double quote is a special character that is used to declare string literals. You cannot have a double quote in a string literal without escaping it.

In general, I will try to avoid such lines of hard code as this in the source code, especially if I find that I am doing this a lot - as you already noted, this is a pain that can be dealt with as a source, and they can most likely change, and in this case you can do without recompilation. If you don’t need to provide runtime parts for text data, you can get away with something as simple as reading data from a properties file, or you can use a template engine like Apache Velocity to keep characteristic data separate and still replace run-time variables - A few examples from the related user guide do just that with HTML.

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Apr 20 '10 at 20:48
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To repeat the benjismith trick from a similar question , you can use an alternate character and replace it later:

 String myString = "using `backticks` instead of quotes".replace('`', '"');

I was comfortable when I wrote tests using JSON

 String json = "{`kind`:`file`,`sid`:802,`rid`:5678 ,`attrs`:{`name`:`FILE-WG-2468`}}".replace('`', '"'); // vs String json = "{\"kind\":\"file\",\"sid\":802,\"rid\":5678 ,\"attrs\":{\"name\":\"FILE-WG-2468\"}}";
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