OK, I've collided with struts over an issue and would like to know if people
have suggestions on how to solve.

I am reading stuff from an XML file and building parts of my UI from for use
in a JSP. I thought it would be good for some of them to have HTML markup in
them, so I put <, etc in the html file. It goes all the way to struts as
"<" and then struts converts it at the last second so that what gets
displayed is <B>.:(

So how do I stop struts from doing this? So far, I dunno. Here's the code
that causes the problem in ResourceUtils(1.3.5):


  /**
  * Filter the specified string for characters that are senstive to HTML
  * interpreters, returning the string with these characters replaced by
  * the corresponding character entities.
  *
  * @param value The string to be filtered and returned
  */
  public static String filter(String value) {
    if ((value == null) || (value.length() == 0)) {
       return value;
    }

    StringBuffer result = null;
    String filtered = null;

    for (int i = 0; i < value.length(); i++) {
       filtered = null;

       switch (value.charAt(i)) {
       case '<':
          filtered = "&lt;";

          break;

       case '>':
          filtered = "&gt;";

          break;

       case '&':
          filtered = "&amp;";

          break;

       case '"':
          filtered = "&quot;";

          break;

       case '\'':
          filtered = "&#39;";

          break;
       }

       if (result == null) {
          if (filtered != null) {
            result = new StringBuffer(value.length() + 50);

            if (i > 0) {
               result.append(value.substring(0, i));
            }

            result.append(filtered);
          }
       } else {
          if (filtered == null) {
            result.append(value.charAt(i));
          } else {
            result.append(filtered);
          }
       }
    }

    return (result == null) ? value : result.toString();
  }

I think it is uncharitable for struts to change these with no option to
prevent it. I am thinking about adding &open; and &close; and resolving them
here to turn them back into < and > respectively. Any other ideas, comments,
suggestions?

Thanks.