RE: Converting &, >, <, ", and other odd-ball characte

Interesting dilema. For the most part, we are a b2b site that deals with
specific clients. Very unlikely this will occur, as far as the non-ascii
characters. I guess you could just "omit" them? I am not sure how it would
be handled. How do you make a web-based solution work with these characters?

thanks.


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike Brown
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 10:13 AM
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> Subject: Re:  Converting &, >, <, ", and other odd-ball
> characters...
>
>
> Kevin Duffey wrote:
> > Oh yeah..not sure if you know this or not, but a "performance" tip..
>
> Yes, I knew there were better ways to do it, and I've done those things
> before; I didn't have access to that code though and I just wanted to get
> across the general idea, and JSP declarations, in case it was going to be
> helpful.
>
> > Lastly, can you think of any other characters that are a
> problem when used
> > in input boxes, text areas, or drop-downs that need to be converted?
>
> " -> &quot; only needs to happen when you're putting the string into an
> attribute value that is delimited by double quotes. Same for ' -> &apos;
> when using apostrophes.
>
> Escaping these characters is only half of your worries. The other half is
> that you cannot be guaranteed of the encoding of the form data that
> arrives in the HTTP request. When people enter non-ASCII characters,
> your JSP engine has maybe an 80% chance of decoding them properly.
>
>    - Mike
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