Saving and Emitting HTML Fragments Using JSTL in a JSP Page
When saving text with the special characters <>'"&, the special
characters are save as is; there is no translation that takes
place. However, when emitting text with <c:out>, these special
characters are translated to the equivalent XML entities. In
particular, < becomes <, > becomes >, '
becomes ', " becomes ", and & becomes
&. This means that a value such as <b> will be emitted
as <b> and therefore not be interpreted as the HTML b
tag.
To prevent this translation, the escapeXml attribute
must be specified and set to false:
<%-- Declare the core library --%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tld/c.tld" prefix="c" %>
<%-- Save data with html tags --%>
<c:set var="msg" value="hi <b>John</b>!" scope="page" />
<%-- Show the value after translating special characters --%>
<c:out value='${msg}' />
<%-- Show the value without translating special characters --%>
<c:out value='${msg}' escapeXml="false" />
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