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Posted to dev@tapestry.apache.org by Mike D Pilsbury <mi...@pekim.co.uk> on 2007/02/28 21:48:40 UTC

Encoding entitie in DefaultMarkupModel

I hit a problem whereby I couldn't work out how to generate a 
soft-hyphen (&shy;) in a grid cell. The text was coming from the grid's 
model.

If the text contained '&shy;', the ampersand was being replaced with 
'&amp;' by DefaultMarkupModel, resulting in '&amp;shy;'. It would be 
nice if the text could simply contain the appropriate Unicode character 
(in this case '\u200b') and the MarkupModel encoded it as required (as 
currently happens for '<', '>' and '&').

A quick experiment with hacking DefaultMarkupModel produced the desired 
result ('\u200b' encoded to '&#8203').

    public void encode(String content, StringBuilder buffer)
    {
        
buffer.append(org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml(content));
    }

Would a change along those lines have any downside? Perhaps more 
importantly, have I missed an existing means of working around the problem?



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