Eduard Witteveen wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 18:01, Pierre van Rooden wrote:
> 
>>You use <mm:field name="html(foo)" /> or <mm:field name="html(gui(foo))" />
> 
> The point is that you now have to use it almost everywhere.
> 
> Why cant the fieldTag itselve do this manipulation since 95% of the
> cases in which i use an fieldTag, it has to be html-escaped.
> 
> Would you forget this in your page, information can be rendered not
> correct, or even worse malicious users could perform cross-side
> scripting.
> 

Yes that would be problem, but I consider changing the default behaviour
of giving the data to some escaped form of a data a bad idea. Especially
since html is not the only output format used by jsp pages, jsp pages 
are even content neutral. So I consider using an extra attribute to 
specify te escaping a far better idea.


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Rico Jansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"You call it untidy, I call it LRU ordered" -- Daniel Barlow


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