Tom - it seems that you are correct, my html does show up correctly.
The reason I have html in my properties file is because I want to display
certain images with my messages.
Let's take the following key for example:
error.password.mismatch=<tr><td class="feedback" height="20"> <img
src="/dc/common/images/iconWarning.gif" width="12" height="12"
align="absmiddle" alt="Warning"> Invalid username and/or password,
please try again.</td></tr>
I can probably move <tr><td>...</td></tr> into my jsp page, but I'm already
using error.header and error.footer with html, so this seemed natural:
errors.header=<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
errors.footer=</table>
I could probably also parameterize my <img ... /> so that this could be a
different key in my properties file, but then I'd have to add a little more
code to my action classes (or validation.xml file).
This brings up another point - I wish I could dynamically set the path to my
image, using a scriptlet or <bean:write> tag, meaning replace "/dc/common" with
"<%=pathToImages%>" - but doesn't seem to work.
We get all our static files through the webserver (vs. appserver) - that's why
I can't get it from the war.
Matt
--- Thomas Quas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Matt,
>
> I'm not sure whether I understood the problem correctly, but I did the
> same thing for a while, and it worked for me without "flush" or other
> tricks. I simply included the message via <bean:message key="x"/>, not
> matter whether there was HTML in it or not.
>
> Note, however, that it can be problematic to mix layout and content
> information. This was the big disadvantage of HTML, and people tried to
> address it with XML and stylesheets, making the two independent of each
> other. I'd recommend putting layout information, such as <b>, <p>, <br>
> etc. in the .jsp, whereas the .properties file should only contain
> content. This way your translators don't need to know HTML. Of course,
> we might open up another can of worms here if we don't have the same
> page layout for all languages.
>
>
> Just my $0.02, tom
>
>
> Matt Raible wrote:
> >
> > I am using <bean:message key="key.name" /> and I want to have HTML in my
> > key.name string, such as:
> >
> > key.name=<b>Hello World</b>
> >
> > So ideally, I could make my tag resemble <bean:message key="key.name"
> > flush="true" />, but there is no filter attribute on this tag?
> >
> > How can I do this, do I have to use <bean:write>, and if so, how do I get
> the
> > messages bean?
> >
> > Can it be done using:
> >
> > <bean:write name="messages" property="key.name" flush="true" />
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matt
> >
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