Thanks Wes, That's what I'm looking for! Cheers, Brian -----Original Message----- From: Wes Rood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 July 2003 15:32 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: two little questions
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.h tml#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 < and > 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 >> >> >> >> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
