Thanks for creating the jira issue. An escapeXml property would be really 
useful.
Agree that "htmlEncode" was a misleading name.

Ronny

On Nov 16, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Musachy Barroso wrote:

> hum, that's interesting. This move was to remove custom code by code
> in commons. The misleading part is that the method was called
> "htmlEncode". We should add an attribute to to the "property" tag
> "escapeXml" that calls
> org.apache.commons.lang.xwork.StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml(..), and
> while we are at it, a "escapeCsv" as well.
> 
> https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/WW-3332
> 
> musachy
> 
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Ronny Løvtangen <li...@lovtangen.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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