0002042: JSTL c:url with escaping

Viewing Issue Simple Details [ Jump to Notes ]

[ View Advanced ] [ Issue History ] [ Print ]

Category

Severity

Reproducibility

Date Submitted

Last Update

0002042

[Resin]

minor

always

10-04-07 09:49

10-01-07 09:18

Reporter

ferg

View Status

public

Assigned To

ferg

Priority

normal

Resolution

no change required

Status

closed

Product Version

3.1.3

Summary

0002042: JSTL c:url with escaping

Description

(rep by Matt White)

Please forgive me if this is a frequently asked question, I have only
recently re-subscribed this list and don't see this issue in the
documentation.

If I have a snippet of JSP code that looks like this:

<a href="<c:url value="someFile.jsp"><c:param name="w"
value="1"/><c:param name="h" value="2"/></c:url>">Click Me!</a>

Resin's JSTL will produce a URL that looks like this:

someFile.jsp?w=1&h=2

...which, if you ask me, is a perfectly valid URL and is the response
I'd expect. The W3C disagrees.

According to the W3C's validator (and the HTML validator plugin for
FireFox I'm using), the URL should be written like this:

someFile.jsp?w=1&h=2

Notice how the & has been escaped into &... one could argue that
this is a silly change as "&" contains "&", but that just the way
these things work... *grumble*

Is there a way to make Resin's JSTL implementation spit out &
instead of & on URLs?

Additional Information

Attached Files

Relationships

Notes
(0002418) ferg 10-01-07 09:18	Resin's c:url is correct. c:url does not XML-escape '&'. You'll need to use c:url with a var parameter and pass the result to c:out and escapeXml='true' to get the XML escaping.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
10-04-07 09:49	ferg	New Issue
10-01-07 09:18	ferg	Note Added: 0002418
10-01-07 09:18	ferg	Assigned To	=> ferg
10-01-07 09:18	ferg	Status	new => closed
10-01-07 09:18	ferg	Resolution	open => no change required

Mantis 1.0.0rc3[^]

28 total queries executed.
25 unique queries executed.