Hi David,
Thanks for the reply. I was doing all these and it was not working out.What i was
missing out was the return type in the doStartTag needs to be EVAL_BODY_BUFFERED.

thanks
vijith

"David M. Karr" wrote:

> >>>>> "Vijith" == Vijith <Vijith.vayanippetta@(protected):
>
>   Vijith> Hi All,
>   Vijith> Is there anyway in which I can prevent the body inside a custom tag from
>   Vijith> appearing in the output.
>
>   Vijith> ie
>
>   Vijith> <emptag>
>   Vijith> this is the text
>   Vijith> </emptag>
>
>   Vijith> Now i donot want this is the text to appear in the output
>
>   Vijith> but i want to get this text in the Custom Tag Handler and then modify it
>   Vijith> and tehn put it back to the body
>
>   Vijith> I would like to get it as
>
>   Vijith> This<br>is<br>the <br>text
>
> Read almost any reference about building JSP custom tags. You'll find that a
> tag class extending BodyTag can call "getString()" on the body content, massage
> the value, and then use the "getPreviousOut()" method on the tag handler to get
> the writer to write the output to. You can get a brief summary of this in the
> JSP tutorial on the Sun web site.
>
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