Re: Best way to parse a String and replace line feeds with
f or html?

[Jason Lea <ja...@kumachan.net.nz>]

That does mean you are adding some html formatting to the action which 
isn't so nice.  Another option that I have used while waiting for the 
next version of JSTL is the jakarta string taglib:  
http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/string-doc/intro.html

eg

|<str:replace replace="NL" with="&lt;br&gt;NL" newlineToken="NL">
A sentence.
Another sentence.
Some more to test. And insert Br's into.
Hopefully.</str:replace>|

So you can leave the object/form as is, and use this taglib to change 
newlines to <br>'s on the JSP page


Barett McGavock wrote:

>Thoughts:
>1) Assuming that you have a separate value object to carry this 
>item to the view, try replacing any "\n" with "<br>" in the action.
>2) Have you also considered using the <pre> HTML tag?
>
>B
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Erickson [mailto:derickson@cmcflex.com] 
>Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 5:05 PM
>To: Struts Mailing List
>Subject: Best way to parse a String and replace line feeds with <br> for
>html?
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>Situation:
>using the html:textarea element tag to enter notes on an object, thats
>getting persisted as a blob in our database.  I would like to be able to
>output this to html with the same formatting.. ie the line feeds work. Whats
>the best way to do this?  I tried the jstl:core c:out tag and it didnt work
>(did not goto the next line), tried the struts bean:write tag same problem.
>Is there another struts tag library I can use? Thanks, David
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