EL - Problem rendering String with quote

[Bosun Bello]

The following works fine as long as the names do not have a quote. For example, a name such as O'brien causes an error when the JSP is rendered. Is there a function that will help to encode or handle this situation?

Thanks!

<td>${member.lastName}</td>
<td>${member.firstName}</td>

[Bear Bibeault]

What kind of error?

[Bosun Bello]

It's actually a JavaScript error because I am building variables to be passed into a javascript methjod when the option button is selected. But I am thinking it's because EL is not handling the quote correctly.

The following also causes an error ONLY if the names contain a quote.


<c:set <c:set var="mInfo" value="'${status.count}','${member.firstName}','${member.lastName}', '${member.sex}', '${member.relationshipCode}'" />


The actual Javascript error is - Error expected ')'

I guess the quote in the name is throwing it off to make it thinks it's the end of a string.
[ August 16, 2007: Message edited by: Bosun Bello ]

[Bear Bibeault]

Well, yeah. Your JSP is just going to create a page to send to the browser. If that page contains badly formatted JavaScript, the browser will complain no matter how the page was generated.

When you're going to emit text that will be embedded in a JavaScript string, you need to make sure that any quotes (of either type) are properly escaped.