2.1.8.1: Change in escaping

[Ronny Løvtangen]

When using escape="true" (which is default) on <s:property ... /> I can see 
that 2.1.6 and 2.1.8.1 behaves differently.
E.g. the norwegian letter ø is escaped as &#xF8; in 2.1.6, but now in 2.1.8.1 
it is escaped as &oslash;

I looked at the source. The change is that 
org.apache.struts2.components.Property now do a

org.apache.commons.lang.xwork.StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml(result)

while it earlier did a 

com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.TextUtils.htmlEncode(result)

I didn't find the source to org.apache.commons.lang.xwork.StringEscapeUtils. It 
is part of xwork-core-2.1.6.jar, but the source is not included in 
xwork-core-2.1.6-sources.jar (!)
Is this the same class as org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils in 
commons-lang? If so, I can see that it uses a lookup table to escape html 
entities, and fallbacks to #-escaping if not found.


Is this change intentional? And is there a way to escape 'the old way'? My 
ouput is not for use in HTML, but as xml input to a flash component, so 
&oslash; won't work.


Regards,
Ronny


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