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Need ability to easily escape message text for display in javascript, xml or html

           Summary: Need ability to easily escape message text for display
                    in javascript, xml or html
           Product: Taglibs
           Version: 1.0
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Enhancement
          Priority: Other
         Component: I18N Taglib
        AssignedTo: taglibs-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: igor@fedulov.com


Often it's needed to display a error message from i18n bundle in a javascript
alert box. Using following :
...
alert("<i18n:message="someErrorMessageText"/>");
...

is not a good idea because some languages contain special characters that needs
to be escaped, or may contain "new line" character which will render above
javascript statement as a error. There is a solution that exists right now:
...
alert("<%=SomeUtility.escapeString(messageBundleId.getString("someErrorMessageText"))%>");
...

That looks cumbersome and not clean. Suggestion is to use something like this:
...
alert("<i18n:message key="someErrorMessageText" outputType="js"/>");
...

that will automatically render output message in proper format removing the need
to escape it manually.

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