the parser interprets these characters as directives when you want to use them as display characters I ran into the same scenario a few years back where I embedded the Ampersand character to escape e.g. Ampersand is & If there are alot of characters to escape you may want to use CDATA directive to tell the parser not to parse whats in the brackets e.g. <script language="javascript"> <![CDATA[PutAllYourEscapedCharactersHere]]> </script>
I found a great tutorial here http://www.jerf.org/programming/encoding.html Martin-- This e-mail communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information for the use of the designated recipients named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution or copying of it or its contents ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:31 AM Subject: Re: AW: Tomcat special character missin in request parameter
