Re: JSTL c:out rewrites html tags

[Shawn Bayern]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:

> Thanks to Brian and Shawn!  anyone know of a lib that will perfrom the 
> escXML on a String?
> 
> goal:
>       take in input string that may / maynot have HTML tags
>       zap the html tags or turn them to pure text ala &LT

You can use <c:out> wrapped by <c:set> to do this, as in

 <c:set var="safeStringWithNoBrackets">
   <c:out value="${mayContainHtmlOrMayNot}" />
 </c:set>
 <%-- modify string --%>
 <c:out value="${safeStringWithNoBrackets}" escapeXml="false" />

-- 
Shawn Bayern
"JSTL in Action"   http://www.manning.com/bayern


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