Re: Best way to parse a String and replace line feeds with f or html?

[Jason Lea]

That does mean you are adding some html formatting to the action which 
isn't so nice.  Another option that I have used while waiting for the 
next version of JSTL is the jakarta string taglib:  
http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/string-doc/intro.html

eg

|<str:replace replace="NL" with="&lt;br&gt;NL" newlineToken="NL">
A sentence.
Another sentence.
Some more to test. And insert Br's into.
Hopefully.</str:replace>|
So you can leave the object/form as is, and use this taglib to change 
newlines to <br>'s on the JSP page

Barett McGavock wrote:

Thoughts:
1) Assuming that you have a separate value object to carry this 
item to the view, try replacing any "\n" with "<br>" in the action.
2) Have you also considered using the <pre> HTML tag?

B

-----Original Message-----
From: David Erickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 5:05 PM
To: Struts Mailing List
Subject: Best way to parse a String and replace line feeds with <br> for
html?

Situation:
using the html:textarea element tag to enter notes on an object, thats
getting persisted as a blob in our database.  I would like to be able to
output this to html with the same formatting.. ie the line feeds work. Whats
the best way to do this?  I tried the jstl:core c:out tag and it didnt work
(did not goto the next line), tried the struts bean:write tag same problem.
Is there another struts tag library I can use? Thanks, David
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