I am having an issue where '<' is NOT escaped by outputText in JSF.
I am running Tomcat 7.0.40 with JSF 2.0, and have the following declarations:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<f:view contentType="text/html" encoding="UTF-8">
This line breaks the HTML because the '<' is NOT escaped:
<h:outputText value="Some < text from the database"/>
The output shows "Some" and then the HTML is broken because of the un-escaped '<'
The '<' is correct in the database, and it also renders correctly in the form text box:
<p:inputText value="#{db_data}" ... />
My web.xml file contains:
<filter>
<filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>encoding</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>encodingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
A bit of my POM...
<!-- JSF -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-api</artifactId>
<version>2.1.12</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp-api</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sun.faces</groupId>
<artifactId>jsf-impl</artifactId>
<version>2.1.12</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.primefaces</groupId>
<artifactId>primefaces</artifactId>
<version>3.4.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.omnifaces</groupId>
<artifactId>omnifaces</artifactId>
<version>1.4.1</version>
<!-- Or 1.5-SNAPSHOT -->
</dependency>
Of course, other HTML entities are also NOT being escaped: &, >, etc.
Regardless if I use #{output}, <h:outputText value="#{output}"/>, or <h:outputText value="#{output}" escape="true"/>, the output is NOT escaped...
