Re: Embedding HTML in JSP

Hi Amit,

> As a newbie to XSL it took sometime to make a asssement of
> what Jeni said.

I'm sorry if bits were unclear - do feel free to ask questions about
the parts that I didn't explain well.

>> >       Trying to output :
>> >      <input type="hidden" name="ProductID" 
>> > value="<%=request.getParameter(\"productid\")%>">
>> >      the \ act as the escape characters.
>
> Using the above is the result of Trying to use XSL to display html
> forms in JSP pages and servlets to capture input. So though use of
> XSL has separated Logic from Display i am stuck with outputting non
> standard XML onto the forms. Maybe there is cleaner approach to the
> whole thing.

Might there be an approach to the application where you don't use XSLT
to produce JSP?  For example, XSLT can take parameters (and it's even
fairly simple to use them if you use a server-side application
environment such as Cocoon), so it might be that you can pass
parameters into the XSLT, and therefore just use:

   <input type="hidden" name="ProductID" value="{$productid}" />

>> In fact, I'm very surprised that you managed to get a 
> processor to
>> output:
>> 
>>  <input type="hidden" name="ProductID"
>>         value="<%=request.getParameter
> (\&quot;productid\&quot;)%>">
>>have a look
>> at the raw source in a basic text editor to see what's 
> really there.
>
> The above is actually the source document I saw. And as u suggest
> XSL unescapes the &gt and &lt to produce <,> but leaves &quot
> untouched which was the reason for my confusion.

Ah... OK, I see why - the spec says "The html output method should not
escape < characters occurring in attribute values."  The processor is
using the HTML output method, so isn't escaping the <s.

Cheers,

Jeni

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