Answering my own question here.
Escape HTML special characters from a String http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0306.html and should you ever need it, the reverse. http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0307.html Honestly I'm surprised that this is not included in DBTaglib <sql:getColumn > or that more people are not asking for such features. I must be missing something. Have a good weekend. Soefara Redzuan. >From: "Soefara Redzuan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Tag Libraries Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Quotes in form field values. >Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 07:48:29 +0800 > >Sorry for the newbie question but I can not find the answer in the mail >archive. If <sql:getColumn> returns a string with quotes then it makes an >error in my HTML. > >ex. ><input type="text" value="<sql:getColumn position="1"/>"> > >becomes ><input type="text" value="He said "This is a problem""> > >How do you prevent this happening ? > >Soefara Redzuan. > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: >http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
