diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 36d0cb044..61b3553bd 100755
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,12 +2,13 @@
 # 🚀Changelog
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# 5.8.36(2025-01-02)
+# 5.8.36(2025-01-09)
 
 ### 🐣新特性
 * 【crypto 】      增加BCUtil.decodeECPrivateKey方法（issue#3829@Github）
 ### 🐞Bug修复
 * 【aop    】      修复ProxyUtil可能的空指针问题（issue#IBF20Z@Gitee）
+* 【core   】      修复XmlUtil转义调用方法错误问题，修复XmlEscape未转义单引号问题（pr#3837@Github）
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # 5.8.35(2024-12-25)
diff --git a/hutool-core/src/main/java/cn/hutool/core/text/escape/Html4Escape.java b/hutool-core/src/main/java/cn/hutool/core/text/escape/Html4Escape.java
index 023ab98bc..8473e417d 100644
--- a/hutool-core/src/main/java/cn/hutool/core/text/escape/Html4Escape.java
+++ b/hutool-core/src/main/java/cn/hutool/core/text/escape/Html4Escape.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package cn.hutool.core.text.escape;
 
 import cn.hutool.core.text.replacer.LookupReplacer;
+import cn.hutool.core.text.replacer.ReplacerChain;
 
 /**
  * HTML4的ESCAPE
@@ -9,9 +10,21 @@ import cn.hutool.core.text.replacer.LookupReplacer;
  * @author looly
  *
  */
-public class Html4Escape extends XmlEscape {
+public class Html4Escape extends ReplacerChain {
 	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
 
+	/**
+	 * HTML转义字符<br>
+	 * HTML转义相比XML，并不转义单引号<br>
+	 * 见：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1091945/what-characters-do-i-need-to-escape-in-xml-documents
+	 */
+	protected static final String[][] BASIC_ESCAPE = { //
+		{"\"", "&quot;"}, // " - double-quote
+		{"&", "&amp;"}, // & - ampersand
+		{"<", "&lt;"}, // < - less-than
+		{">", "&gt;"}, // > - greater-than
+	};
+
 	protected static final String[][] ISO8859_1_ESCAPE = { //
 			{ "\u00A0", "&nbsp;" }, // non-breaking space
 			{ "\u00A1", "&iexcl;" }, // inverted exclamation mark
@@ -310,6 +323,7 @@ public class Html4Escape extends XmlEscape {
 
 	public Html4Escape() {
 		super();
+		addChain(new LookupReplacer(BASIC_ESCAPE));
 		addChain(new LookupReplacer(ISO8859_1_ESCAPE));
 		addChain(new LookupReplacer(HTML40_EXTENDED_ESCAPE));
 	}
diff --git a/hutool-core/src/test/java/cn/hutool/core/util/XmlUtilTest.java b/hutool-core/src/test/java/cn/hutool/core/util/XmlUtilTest.java
index cb7a2d9f5..373aa323a 100644
--- a/hutool-core/src/test/java/cn/hutool/core/util/XmlUtilTest.java
+++ b/hutool-core/src/test/java/cn/hutool/core/util/XmlUtilTest.java
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import cn.hutool.core.lang.Console;
 import cn.hutool.core.map.MapBuilder;
 import cn.hutool.core.map.MapUtil;
 import lombok.Data;
-import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
+
 /**
  * {@link XmlUtil} 工具类
  *
@@ -319,8 +321,8 @@ public class XmlUtilTest {
 	public void escapeTest(){
 		final String a = "<>";
 		final String escape = XmlUtil.escape(a);
-		Console.log(escape);
-		Console.log(XmlUtil.escape("中文“双引号”"));
+		Assertions.assertEquals("&lt;&gt;", escape);
+		Assertions.assertEquals("中文“双引号”", XmlUtil.escape("中文“双引号”"));
 	}
 
 	@Test