Default Value Escaping

[James Watkin]

Request for a new feature, I think:

I'd like to be able to turn off escaping for the default value in the 
<c:out> tag, but not the regular value if it exists.

Here's what I'm trying to do:
When displaying HTML tables that contain CSS borders, I need to put a blank 
value(&nbsp;) in those cells that contain null values, otherwise the 
borders won't appear correctly. This is a common requirement.

With JSTL 1.0, there's a problem if I try to use this pattern:
<td><c:out value="${someVariable}" default="&nbsp;" escapeXml="false"/></td>
The problem is that I want escaping turned on for the regular variable 
value, if it exists. Perhaps there should be two new attributes for the 
<c:out> tag: valueEscapeXml and defaultEscapeXml.

- Jim

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James Watkin
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The Anderson School at UCLA
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