Cheers. Im not actually using jsp in this case, but rather modifying the contents of an org.w3c.dom.Document tree and Im using a rather niave homebrew serialiser to render the xhtml to the response stream. (as the one in xerces turned out to be more than a bit inflexible when it came to extending it to handle some PIs I needed to interpret at render time (which do happen to requestdispatcher includes)).
I'll guess go and rip apart bean-write and get my serialiser (or my renderers) to do what it does and see how it goes. -----Original Message----- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 18 September 2003 19:38 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: Evil characters causing mischief in textarea and value attribute contents Hi Andrew, I thought, man, you don't know that? Hahaha - and then I realised I don't know either. I just checked my app to make sure it's not happening to me too, and it's not. I have stuff like ""snowflake"" in the database and it gets encoded automatically into value="a html-busting "character"" via <html:text>. Presumably <html:textarea> is the same. If you have <bean:write> you can add filter="true". Adam On 09/18/2003 12:36 PM Andrew Hill wrote: > We have some screens that allow users to edit some stuff stored in the db, > and some of this stuff includes such characters as " or \ or whatever, and > also some of them have xml tags as there contents. > > When rendering such fields we are hitting some problems. > ie: if the value is something like: > my cats name is "snowflake" > > we end up with: > <input name="fieldname" value="my cats name is ""snowflake""/> > > ...which of course is not very good. > > Another one is textareas containing </textarea>! > > Whats the technique for handling this nicely? > Obviously I need to escape these somehow. What do I need to consider? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- struts 1.1 + tomcat 4.1.27 + java 1.4.2 Linux 2.4.20 RH9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
