>From my understanding, all you need is to use
<input name="title" value="<c:out value="${book.title}"
escapeXml="false"/>">
Note: Not ${book.getTitle()}, but ${book.title}
Best regards,
Eric
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Riek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Dienstag, 4. Februar 2003 06:52
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Escaping quotes in form fields - c:out doesn't see
> my variable
>
>
>
> Sorry for such an easy question but I must be misunderstanding
> the fundamental usage of the JSTL.
>
> How do I get JSTL to output a string which has been formatted
> to escape special characters, so that it is safe to put in a form
> field ? I have tried the following but it does not work-
>
> <input name="title" value="<c:out value="${book.getTitle()}"/>">
>
> where 'book' is an instance of a Javabean which I have created
> within a JSP scriptlet like this,
>
> <%
> Book book = new Book(request.getParameter("BookId"));
> book.retrieveValues();
> %>
>
> As you can see, I do NOT use JSTL's database tags for
> querying databases since I have already wrapped all that
> functionality and business logic inside my Javabeans (in
> this case, the "Book" class). However, it seems that the
> JSTL <c:out> tag is unable to see my variable 'book' if I
> instantiate it in this way, am I correct ?
>
> I only want to use the <c:out> tag in order to escape any
> characters (such as ", ', &, \, >) which may upset my
> input tag. Is this overkill or should I use a simple search/replace
> instead ? I hope the solution will work with double-byte
> characters too.
>
> Thank you for bearing with me,
>
> Stephen.
>
>
>
>
>
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