Re: JSTL <c:out> tag-- how to escape apostrophe

Quoting Chandra Avutu <[email protected]>:

> I am using JSTL c:out tag to print server messages into HTML pages. However
> some of the messages contains apostrophe. Due to special chars the JSTL
> c:out
> tag was breaking. The following message from server breaks <c:out> tag.
> "Invalid datastore path 'No_Floppy.flp'." Is there any was I can fix this.
> Thanks, Chandra

I'm not sure why this isn't working for you, but here's an example to
demonstrate that escaping should be taking place. Try this page:

<%@ page contentType="text/plain" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<c:set var="chars">& < > " '</c:set>
Escaped chars: <c:out value="${chars}"/>
Unescaped chars: <c:out value="${chars}" escapeXml="false"/>

The output should look like:

Escaped chars: &amp; &lt; &gt; &#034; &#039;
Unescaped chars: & < > " '

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Kris Schneider <mailto:[email protected]>
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