Personally i dont see a problem with the scriptlet approach. A lot of people have the misconception that scriptlets are evil. I think a better view is that custom tags / jstl are nicer to work with (especially for non java ppl) . But when there is somthing like this that you just dont seem to be able to do with jstl alone you have two choices:
1. implement a custom tag library 2. use a scriptlet In this case i'd go with the scriptlet as its so simple! Alternatively you could always put the variable 'linefeed' into the application scope once at startup, then it will always be there. Daniel. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Holmes Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 September 2004 18:45 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Line Breaks and Formatting Text > > > Great! Thanks for the help, I appreciate it very much! > > Now, the question I have is ... which is the preferred method? > > The JSP only solution looks like it does use a scriptlet to set the > pagecontext. The first solution (which I use the replaceall), I am not > sure if I want to do that because other code that might need to get my > data from the DTO. > > Which would you use? > > Thanks again. > > Tom > > Daniel Perry wrote: > > > If you choose to keep the replaceall, then use: > > <c:out value="${data}" escapeXml="false"/> > > > > Or, for a jsp only solution: > > > > <% pageContext.setAttribute("linefeed", "\n"); %> > > > > <c:out value="${fn:replace(data,linefeed, '<br>')}" escapeXml="false"/> > > > > Daniel. > > > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Tom Holmes Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: 06 September 2004 17:08 > >>To: Struts Users Mailing List > >>Subject: Line Breaks and Formatting Text > >> > >> > >>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 >br< (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 > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
