Line Breaks and Formatting Text

[Tom Holmes Jr.]

I am a Struts newbie, but not in writing web-applications or JSP pages.
I am writing a simple app that is taking data from my database and 
displaying the data in my JSP page, that works.  I got the date 
formatted how I want, and that's fine.  The text data that I want to 
display has some linefeeds in it within the database.  Such as:

Hi!
This is a Test!
This is another line!
When this displays, it displays as one long line because I know HTML 
doesn't recognize line feeds.  So, within my DTO class, when I get my 
data, I did a replaceAll("\n","<br>") to replace the linefeeds within my 
text.  What happens now is that I see the <br> as part of the text, and 
the page source shows &gt;br&lt; (which is why I see the <br>).

So, my question is ... how can I keep the line breaks by adding <br/> 
correctly?  I want to keep the formatting the same with these line 
breaks.  Is there some <fmt> or <c> tag that I am missing or some 
regular expression tag I could use.  I am digging into my JSTL tag books 
for an answer.

And BTW, I did search the Jarkarta Struts documentation, and I did look 
on the web for an answer first.  Leaving a message here was my last resort.

Thanks.
                    Tom
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