Re: two little questions

[Wes Rood]

Q1:
Look at OSCore from Opensymphony:
http://www.opensymphony.com/oscore/
Specifically, the plainTextToHtml method in the TextUtils class: 
http://www.opensymphony.com/oscore/api/com/opensymphony/util/TextUtils.html#plainTextToHtml(java.lang.String)

This does exactly what Andrew mentions, plus it takes care of line breaks.

Andrew Hill wrote:

Other alternative is similar - convert the < and > to &lt; and &gt; etc...
so it outputs as though it was text.
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian McSweeney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 14 July 2003 18:38
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: RE: two little questions
Hi Simon,
That was my original idea too. Just wanted to see if other people were
doing the same.
Cheers,
Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Kelly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 14 July 2003 10:58
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: two little questions
For Q1.

You could pass the data that they enter through a paser, that delimits
out
the <...> tags by placing '!--' after any '<' and '--' before and '>',
this
will stop this text being viewed as html. Or jusr remove the tags or
allow
cetain tags and remove any that aren't in the allowable ones!
Cheers

Simon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian McSweeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 11:49 AM
Subject: two little questions
 

Question1:

If my application allows users to enter text which will then later be
displayed on
web pages, do I have to ensure that the text they write isn't html.
   

For
 

example,
lets say a message board application. If a user enters in loads of
   

text
 

which is
html, will this not mess up the page when it is displayed? If so, how
   

do
 

people
check for this.
Question2:

If I want my app to be able to allow users to enter text in any
   

language
 

- eg,
multi-lingual message boards, do I have to configure my database to be
able to
handle multiple language types, or should it just work.
Thanks for any replies,
Brian
   



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