RE: Question on CGIDEV2

Yes Joe, but every time we go to use that power tool named Java the lights
dim in the entire neighborhood before it actually starts running. <tic>
But you have to wonder why in nearly 2005 anyone would use a pound sign
(which is not an invariant character) in program code whose purpose is to
encode characters. How ironic is that!

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:13 PM
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: [WEB400] Question on CGIDEV2

> From: Brad Stone
> 
> So, with what I want to do, with eRPGSDK I can do:
> 
> #loadTemplate('anyfile.ext')
> #replaceData('<':'&lt;')
> #writeSection
> 
> and I'm done.  What I'm doing is showing _why_ in the eRPG
> SDK I chose to not use delimited tags for replacement
> fields.

Of course, if you were using Java instead of RPG, you'd include the
wonderful Open Source htmlparser.jar and simply do this:

        out.write(Translate.encode(myOutput));

This would convert ALL non-ISO-8859-1 characters in the String myOutput
to their correct character entity references at one go (as opposed to
the multiple calls to #replaceData that you have to do).  But hey, why
use a power tool on a screw when you can bang it in with that big old
RPG hammer?

<g>

Joe

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