So I've been thinking on this.
My favourite idea atm:
<str:replace replace="hellNEWLINo jim" with="hi bob"
newlineToken="NEWLIN">...</str:replace>
Any thoughts on that?
Such as would I need a separate token for replace and with?
Hen
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Henri Yandell wrote:
>
> I'm not sure. There's nothing really 'html'y about the problem of 'we want
> to replace \n'. It's only the with bit that gets htmly. So I'm just
> grumbling about the name :)
>
> I was aiming to have a future:
>
> <escape type="html> tag, so your extra options will need to fit in there
> maybe.
>
> How about just overriding the replace attribute of the replace tag with:
>
> replaceNewline
> replaceTab
> replaceHardspace
>
> etc??
>
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Hans Bergsten wrote:
>
> > Because of all the escaping problems, I think a separate action is the
> > best solution for this instead of trying to do some tricks with the
> > replace action. How about something like this:
> >
> > <str:htmlEscape
> > [nls="true|false"]
> > [blanks="true|false"]
> > [tabs="true|false" [tabLength="noOfChars"]]>
> > text to be converted
> > </str:htmlEscape>
> >
> > nls: replace all \n with <br>
> > blanks: replace multiple blanks with , but leave single
> > blanks alone
> > tabs: replace tabs with a number of
> > tabLength: how many characters a tab represents (default is 8)
> >
> > The "blanks" and "tabs" replacements make it possible to handle simple
> > formatted (indented) text. Other replacements are possible, of course,
> > such as "*" to "<li>", but this is a start.
> >
> > Hans
> >
> > Henri Yandell wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, zze-JEANJEAN S ext FTRD/DMI/SOP wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>>>Is there a tag to convert \n to <br/> ??
> > >>>
> > >>>You should be able to use the String Taglib or the Regexp Taglib.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>The str:replace tag is not easy to use : in the replace propertie the \n
> > >>is not understood :(( You have to put in this propetie a real new line,
> > >>so the code is not really readable :(
> > >>For instance :
> > >>...
> > >><str:replace replace="
> > >>" with="<BR/>"><c:out
> > >>value="${requestScope[theKey].address1}"/></str:replace>
> > >>...
> > >
> > >
> > > Yeah. This needs to be solved doesn't it.
> > >
> > > Solutions:
> > >
> > > Make replace accept \n as being a newline. This would be doable, but what
> > > if someone wanted to replace a \n sequence? Is it acceptable to make
> > > 'tabs' illegal in the replace etc. Probably not.
> > >
> > > Add a replaceJava attribute, for specifying the replace tag as a Java
> > > attribute. Would want a withJava attribute too.
> > > Or maybe this is an encoding="java" attribute.
> > >
> > > Have a replaceNewline tag. A bit weak as you won't be able to replace
> > > something with a newline in. Also has weaknesses as I'm trying to collate
> > > similar functionality and not create more tags.
> > >
> > > ====
> > > I seem to recall that there are no XML character entities that work
> > > there, but possible I could make one work. Whether this would be
> > > cross-server though, I don't know.
> > >
> > > Most people will want \n to work I imagine, and won't care that they have
> > > to do \\n to replace a \ and a n. If I change it so that all
> > > String attributes get unescaped for Java entities, and maybe even all
> > > content as well. I wonder if this will hurt anything...
> > >
> > > If not, I'll aim for this feature to be in a 2.0 release. My apologies for
> > > not being able to get it in sooner.
> > >
> > > Hen
> > >
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