153019 - Server-side tag-based code is mangled into HTML meta chars

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 59985

(SeaMonkey :: Composer, defect)

Description

[Ken Johanson]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc3)
Gecko/20020523
BuildID:    2002052306

The example code is be "Java Server Tag Libary" format
(http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/). (The Taglibs chief design goal was to
simplfy separation of web application logic from display by allowing the site
appearance designer to move tag entities in the GUI editor of their choice).
This problem also occurs with JSP code (Java Server Pages, which JSTL is a
hybrid of).

Mozilla leaves some tags alone, but other *crucial* Java tags are always
destroyed ("<%@ taglib....>, <! private Test >"), rendering Mozilla completely
unsable for Java composition. This is even with the "Composer -> Retain Original
Source Formatting" option checked.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Paste sample code into a file.
2.Open with composer


Actual Results:  Notice that some < and > chars are converted to HTML meta chars
(&lt; &gt;, etc).

Expected Results:  Any tag that is not "known" should simply be left alone, IMHO.

<%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/dbtags" prefix="sql" %>
<%! private DBConnectionManager connMgr; Connection con;%>
<%-- open a database connection --%>
<sql:connection id="conn1">
  <sql:url>jdbc:mysql://localhost/test</sql:url>
  <sql:driver>org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</sql:driver>
</sql:connection>

<%-- open a database query --%>
<table>
<sql:statement id="stmt1" conn="conn1"> 
  <sql:query>
    select id, name, description from test_books
    order by 1
  </sql:query>
  <%-- loop through the rows of your query --%>
  <sql:resultSet id="rset2">
    <tr>
      <td><sql:getColumn position="1"/></td>
      <td><sql:getColumn position="2"/></td>
      <td><sql:getColumn position="3"/>
          <sql:wasNull>[no description]</sql:wasNull></td>
    </tr>
  </sql:resultSet>
</sql:statement>
</table>

<%-- close a database connection --%>
<sql:closeConnection conn="conn1"/>

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59985 ***

Comment 2

[sujay]

bulk verification.

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

reassign in case bugs are later reopened