RE: Tag to Unescape an HTML String?

[James Watkin]

A little while ago I tried the Apache Jakarta String TagLib 
<str:decodeUrl>. It gave me the following error: URLDecoder: Illegal hex 
characters in escape (%) pattern - For input string: "&a". As you suggest, 
maybe the length of my body HTML String was too long to be passed as a param.

- Jim

At 04:45 PM 1/23/2004 -0800, you wrote:
java.net.URLDecoder.decode() will decode such a string.
You could create a simple tag that called the method
if you want.  Be aware that some servers are unhappy with
really big URLs.
- Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Watkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:47 PM
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> Subject: Tag to Unescape an HTML String?
>
>
> I have a question regarding the following problem and
> proposed solution:
> Within a JSP, what would be the most efficient way to
> unescape an HTML
> string? The Regexp tag library? I've managed to avoid writing regular
> expressions for a long time.
>
> Problem:
> I'm creating some reusable JSP templates that are chained
> together with
> <c:import>. I'm trying to solve the well known problem of
> having to create
> two new JSPs for every new page -- one for the new page body,
> the other to
> import the master page layout and pass the URL of the new
> page body JSP.
>
> Proposed Solution:
> Rather than pass the master page layout a URL for the body JSP, I can
> eliminate the body JSP by passing in the body as a String. If
> my master
> page layout is within the same container, then I can use
> <c:set> and not
> have to worry about unescaping the body String. However, I'd
> prefer (I
> think) to have the master page layout live outside the container,
> especially since the JSTL spec notes that foreign context
> access within the
> same container might not be supported by all containers. If
> the master page
> layout JSP is outside the container of the importing JSP,
> then the body
> HTML String has to be passed with <c:param>, which escapes
> the string. So
> I'll need to unescape it be I can use it.
>
> - Jim
>
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