Character Escape Bug With Programmatic Views
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- Java
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Description
This this a problem sprung from #1581 and seen in MyFaces.
The special characters, such as less-than, greater-than (< >), are escaped in MyFaces, but not in Mojarra.
If they are escaped, then the `` tag will be visible on the rendered page. By default MyFaces escapes these characters, and the RenderKit Documentation specifics that **escape should be enabled by default (i.e. true)** for component family jakarta.faces.Output and renderer jakarta.faces.Text. These are what UIOutput is registered with. (Maybe this issue could be a bug in Mojarra?)
See `escape` attribute -
https://jakarta.ee/specifications/faces/4.0/renderkitdoc/HTML_BASIC/jakarta.faces.Outputjakarta.faces.Text.html
For a concrete example, the [hello facelet](https://github.com/jakartaee/faces/blob/07843e24dd2a6a2520433d9b8376d93942bdf113/tck/faces40/javaPage/src/main/java/ee/jakarta/tck/faces/test/faces40/javapages/Hello.java#L21) from the TCK would render this output in MyFaces:
```
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
</html>
```
Contributor guide
Research direction
Read the RenderKit documentation linked in the issue and inspect the TCK example in tck/faces40/javaPage/.../Hello.java. Reproduce the hello facelet output with Mojarra and compare it with the shown MyFaces output. Done means programmatic UIOutput rendering escapes the special characters by default as specified.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100