Unescape escapeXML text

[Robert Mark Bram]

Hi All,

I have an application that is writing Javascript with JSP server side
code that uses escapeXML:

var someVar = "<c:out escapeXml="true" value="You'll never escape!"/

>";

How to I unescape this? Using the unescape() function doesn't cut
it..
unescape("You'll never escape!");

Do I have to use regex to replace or is there some other way?

Thanks for any assistance!

Rob
:)

[Bart Van der Donck]

Robert Mark Bram wrote:

I have an application that is writing Javascript with JSP server side
code that uses escapeXML:

var someVar = "<c:out escapeXml="true" value="You'll never escape!"/

";

How to I unescape this? Using the unescape() function doesn't cut
it. unescape("You'll never escape!");

Do I have to use regex to replace or is there some other way?

var txt = 'apostrophe ' / double quote: " / '
+ ' s: s / è: è / Chinese sign: 新';

txt = txt.replace(/(&#)([0-9]{1,5})(;)/g,
function (a1, a2, a3, a4) {
return String.fromCharCode(a3);
}
);
alert(txt);

Hope this helps,

--
Bart

[dhtml]

Robert Mark Bram wrote:

Hi All,

I have an application that is writing Javascript with JSP server side
code that uses escapeXML:

var someVar = "<c:out escapeXml="true" value="You'll never escape!"/

>";

How to I unescape this? Using the unescape() function doesn't cut
it..
unescape("You'll never escape!");

Or could escape it differently.

If you are using struts you can use StringEscapeUtils.escapeJavaScript.

Would be really nice to have c:out handle that.

Fictitious example:
<c:out escapeJavaScript="true" value="You'll never escape!"/>

Garrett

>
Rob
:)

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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Robert Mark Bram wrote:

I have an application that is writing Javascript with JSP server side
code that uses escapeXML:

var someVar = "<c:out escapeXml="true" value="You'll never escape!"/>";

*g*

How to I unescape this?

Maybe

someVar = someVar.replace(/&lt;/g, "<").replace(/&gt;/g, ">"
.replace(/&amp;/g, "&");

Using the unescape() function doesn't cut it..
unescape("You'll never escape!");

It is not supposed to. unescape() decodes (ASCII) percent-encoded strings.
It was primarily used to decode URI components, and is now deprecated in
favor of decodeURI() and decodeURIComponent(), which in addition can decode
UTF-8 percent encoding.

Do I have to use regex to replace or is there some other way?

A regular expression like above would not help in your case because the
escaping of `"' needs to take place *before* you insert the value with JSP,
i.e. "on the server".

You do not need `escapeXml="true"' if you declare the content of the XHTML
`script' element CDATA, provided the string never contains `"', like
in your example:

<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
...
]]>
</script>

But if the `<' and `>' are your only problems, you could as well move the
code to an external script file or simply use HTML instead.
PointedEars
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navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1
&& navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') != -1
) // Plone, register_function.js:16

[Robert Mark Bram]

Thanks to all for the input!