On Mar 8, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Theodore Petrosky wrote:


yes of course... but I know that i need to replace the "\n" for "<br/ >". but I don't see how.

Well... you DID say "If I just bind the text to a WOText area". Now you show a WOString. WOText and WOString are very, very different. Being precise in your questions will yield more exact answers more quickly.


I seem to recall an example method.

inside my HTML

<webobject name = "NotesRowRepetition">
<tr align = "left">
<td><wo:WOString value = "$currentNote.noteText" /></td>
</tr>
</webobject>

and the WOD:

NotesRowRepetition: WORepetition {      
        list = notesDG.displayedObjects;
        item = currentNote;     
}

so that currentNote is from a 'to-many' relationship. I need to escape the currentNote.noteText for \n

I just don't see how.

java.text.Format. Get familiar with it, it is a very useful tool. I covered this in my Best Practices session at WOWODC 08.

Here is a simple example


/**
 * Converts \n to <br/> on output
 */
public class HTMLLineBreakReformatter extends java.text.Format {


public StringBuffer format(Object object, StringBuffer buffer, FieldPosition position) {
        return buffer.append(((String)object).replaceAll("\n", <br/>));
    }

}

Create an instance in your page and use the formatter binding of WOString.


Chuck

--- On Fri, 3/6/09, Miguel Arroz <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Miguel Arroz <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: escaping in HTML
To: "John Huss" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Theodore Petrosky" <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: Friday, March 6, 2009, 11:56 AM
Hi!
  That shouldn't be needed in text
areas... my guess is some kind of line feed representation
problem. Mac (classic), Windows and UNIX all use different
representations for line feeds. I don't recall what the
browser uses, but it's probably different than what you
have in the DB.
  Yours
Miguel Arroz
On 2009/03/06, at 16:24, John Huss
wrote:
How about using
string.replace("\n", "<br/>")

John

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 10:09 AM,
Theodore Petrosky <[email protected]>
wrote:

I know I saw an example somewhere... I just can't seem
to find it again.

I have text from my database that has returns (line
feeds). If I just bind the text to a WOText area, the CRs
and LFs are ignored.

Can someone point me in the right direction.

I need to convert the CR to <BR />...

Ted







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