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From: Eric.Lewis@swissinfo.ch
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Subject: RE: Escaping quotes in form fields - c:out doesn't see my variabl
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Sure, book.getTitle() is the public method, but that's translated into
${book.title} for JSTL.
JSTL is smart enough to know that ${book.title} corresponds to
book.getTitle(). The only thing that might not have happened is that you set
the reference to your object as "book" in your request context.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Riek [mailto:stephenriek@yahoo.co.uk]
> Sent: Dienstag, 4. Februar 2003 11:18
> To: Tag Libraries Users List
> Subject: RE: Escaping quotes in form fields - c:out doesn't see my
> variabl e
> 
> 
> 
> book.getTitle() is the public method for my Book class.
> book.title is a private String property so it's not accessible. 
> 
> Even if book.title were visible, I'm pretty sure that <c:out>
> must be able to use javabean methods as well as properties,
> both of which just return a String after all (at least in my case).
> 
>  Thanks for trying to help, but the problem still persists.
> 
> Stephen.
> 
>  Eric.Lewis@swissinfo.ch wrote: From my understanding, all 
> you need is to use
>  [input] escapeXml="false"/>">
> 
> Note: Not ${book.getTitle()}, but ${book.title}
> 
> Best regards,
> Eric
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephen Riek [mailto:stephenriek@yahoo.co.uk]
> > Sent: Dienstag, 4. Februar 2003 06:52
> > To: taglibs-user@jakarta.apache.org
> > Subject: Escaping quotes in form fields - c:out doesn't see 
> > my variable
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Sorry for such an easy question but I must be misunderstanding
> > the fundamental usage of the JSTL. 
> > 
> > How do I get JSTL to output a string which has been formatted
> > to escape special characters, so that it is safe to put in a form 
> > field ? I have tried the following but it does not work-
> > 
> >  [input] ">
> > 
> > where 'book' is an instance of a Javabean which I have created
> > within a JSP scriptlet like this,
> > 
> > > Book book = new Book(request.getParameter("BookId"));
> > book.retrieveValues();
> > %>
> > 
> > As you can see, I do NOT use JSTL's database tags for 
> > querying databases since I have already wrapped all that 
> > functionality and business logic inside my Javabeans (in
> > this case, the "Book" class). However, it seems that the
> > JSTL tag is unable to see my variable 'book' if I
> > instantiate it in this way, am I correct ? 
> > 
> > I only want to use the tag in order to escape any
> > characters (such as ", ', &, \, >) which may upset my 
> > input tag. Is this overkill or should I use a simple search/replace
> > instead ? I hope the solution will work with double-byte
> > characters too. 
> > 
> > Thank you for bearing with me,
> > 
> > Stephen.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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