H:outputLink tag whitespace

Hello,
I've found that the <h:outputLink> tag, when rendering HTML, follows the closing </a> with lots of whitespace - some line breaks and tabs. I'm not sure if this problem is specific to the particular JSF implementation I'm using (WebSphere Portal v5.1 JSF Portlet).
This is a problem because we need some of our links to be immediately followed by a period. With any whitespace there, the browser renders a single space between the link and the period.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks

Adding the CSS style of "whitespace: normal;" doesn't really do anything, since it's the normal way the browser interprets whitespace - multiple continguous whitespace in the HTML gets rendered as a single space. What I need is to not have any spaces rendered.
It's too bad there isn't a CSS style that makes whitespace in the HTML completely ignored.
I'm still looking for a solution here. I could probably take out the h:outputLink tag and just use an <a href=" in my JSP, but I would much prefer to use a JSF tag if possible. Especially since this kind of situation appears in many places in our application.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
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Hello,
I have just converted 2 of my apps from JSF 1.0 (Beta) to JSF 1.0 (FCS), and the conversion was really smooth and simple (good job JSF Team! ) but after converting to the new final release I noticed that my second application throws warning exceptions on every page display. I have isolated the cause to my use of the <f:verbatim>...</f:verbatim> tag nested within an <h:outputLink>...</outputLink> tag. The problem when looking at the decompiled code appears to have something to do with a cast to UIComponent. Has anyone else had a problem using verbatim with the FCS release? Here is the java trace.
java.lang.ClassCastException
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at org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspx_meth_h_outputLink_23(index_jsp.java:2253)
at org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:108)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:137)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:210)
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at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241)
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at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:356)
at com.sun.faces.context.ExternalContextImpl.dispatch(ExternalContextImpl.java:322)
at com.sun.faces.application.ViewHandlerImpl.renderView(ViewHandlerImpl.java:142)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:87)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.phase(LifecycleImpl.java:200)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:117)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:198)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:256)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
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at org.apache.catalina.valves.CertificatesValve.invoke(CertificatesValve.java:246)
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at org.jboss.web.tomcat.tc4.statistics.ContainerStatsValve.invoke(ContainerStatsValve.java:76)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2417)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180)
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at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityAssociationValve.invoke(SecurityAssociationValve.java:65)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:577)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:174)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
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at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:781)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:549)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:605)
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I am getting the same error using Weblogic 8.1.
What I have is a custom tag which extends TagSupport embedded within the verbatim tag. The jsp looks as follows:
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     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:402)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:305)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:6350)
     at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:317)
     at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:118)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppServletContext.java:3635)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestImpl.java:2585)
     at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:197)
     at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:170)

Link Value to Bean

Hi All.
Im new to Java, so if Im going about this the wrong way, please let me know!
Ive got a populated datatable and I want to be able to let the user select one of the rows and then underneath I want another datatable to be made showing records from my database with the original selection as the record ID.
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JSF related questions should be posted in the JSF subforum: http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=427
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Parse XML file, read a tag with whitespaces value.

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My xml file contains the following:
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<LASTNAME> </LASTNAME>
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</ROW>
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As you see last name contains four spaces!
Now when I'm trying to read value from LASTNAME record I'm getting a NULL value, but I want it to return me those 4 spaces as they are.
Here is a short code description of what I'm doing:
declare
     xml sys.xmltype;
str1 varchar2(100);
str2 varchar2(100);
begin
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str1 := xml.extract('//ROW['1']/LASTNAME/text()'); -- str1 gets NULL value :(, I want spaces as they are in the file.
str2 := xml.extract('//ROW[' || 1 || ']/LASTNAME').getstringval; -- str2 gets <LASTNAME/> null tag :(.
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Seems like when it createxml from the fileContentClob it ignores the spaces and find LASTNAME as a null field.
Do you have any suggestions on how can I fix that, so I can read whitespaces as they are in the file?
I generate the file also using a xml toolpackage from oracle:
declare
strSqlStmt Varchar2(300);
varCtxHdl dbms_xmlquery.ctxhandle;
varClob Clob;
begin
strSqlStmt := 'SELECT FIRSTNAME,LASTNAME,AGE FROM USERS WHERE ROWNUM =1';
varCtxHdl := dbms_xmlquery.newcontext(strSqlStmt);
varClob := dbms_xmlquery.getxml(varCtxHdl);
dbms_xmlquery.closecontext(varCtxHdl);
End;

Even if the STORE AS CLOB clause is used to store the data and preserve whitespace for the XML, the actual extraction of data seems to be removing whitespace...
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1* create table t (xml xmltype) xmltype xml store as clob
SQL> /
Table created.
SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 insert into t (xml)
2 values (q'[<?xml version = '1.0'?>
3 <ROWSET>
4 <ROW num="1">
5 <FIRSTNAME>Nik</FIRSTNAME>
6 <LASTNAME>    </LASTNAME>
7 <AGE>30</AGE>
8 </ROW>
9* </ROWSET>]')
SQL> /
1 row created.
SQL> select * from t;
XML
<?xml version = '1.0'?>
<ROWSET>
<ROW num="1">
<FIRSTNAME>Nik</FIRSTNAME>
<LASTNAME>    </LASTNAME>
<AGE>30</AGE>
</ROW>
</ROWSET>
SQL> set null NULL
SQL> select x.rnum, x.firstname, x.lastname, x.age
2 from t
3      ,xmltable('/ROWSET/ROW'
4                PASSING t.xml
5                COLUMNS rnum      NUMBER       PATH '/ROW/@num'
6                       ,firstname VARCHAR2(10) PATH '/ROW/FIRSTNAME'
7                       ,lastname VARCHAR2(10) PATH '/ROW/LASTNAME'
8                       ,age       NUMBER       PATH '/ROW/AGE'
9               ) x
10 /
      RNUM FIRSTNAME LASTNAME          AGE
         1 Nik        NULL               30
SQL>

How to render outputlink as an area tag rather than an a tag

Hi all,
As stated in JSF document, both shape and coords are valid properties in outputlink. So, I have tried following
<map name="monkey">
<h:outputLink shape="rect" coords="0,0,30,30" value="http://yahoo.com"/>
</map>
however. that is rendered as <a href="http://yahoo.com" coords="0,0,30,30" shape="rect"></a>, what I really want is
<area href="http://yahoo.com" coords="0,0,30,30" shape="rect"></area> ...
I mean if outputlink can only be render an a tag, but not an area tag, I do not see why it will support shape and coords propeties ...
Any help here ...
Thanks a million
Edited by: EJP on 5/09/2011 10:50: fixed your meta-HTML

886619 wrote:
I know that coords and shape are defined in w3c standard, my questions are
1) what jsf component can be rendered as area tag for html frontend?None that I am aware of. You could write your own. Or, if an existing component is appropriate, you could write an alternative renderer for the component.
2) "The position and shape of the hot spot on the screen (for use in client-side image maps)." That is the sentence for JSF document, what you think about for use in client-side image map mean? I donot see why render as <a> tag for client-side image map will be an acceptable solution ...I don't think this has anything to do with JSF at this point; JSF simply passes these values through to the rendered HTML. You have to understand how to use HTML to make proper use of these attributes.

Getting rid of whitespace in a tag body

I've got a tag that looks something like this:
<lib:title>
   <logic:present name="x" value="true">
      Hello
   </logic:present>
   <logic:present name="x" value="false">
      Goodbye
   </logic:present>
</lib:title>
The TITLE tag does a getBodyContent() to retrieve whatever is inside the TITLE tags.
The problem is that it has lots of whitespace around it - ie. a couple of carraige returns and some tabs. So the bodyContent ends up being "\n\tHello\n".
Is there a way I can turn this off, or do I have to trim it out manually after I call getBodyContent()?
Cheers!

Good point - this works. The actual example has a couple more conditional tags and is a bit more involved, and just becomes a bit difficult to read.
I thought I remembered reading something from a book in my early JSP days which mentioned some sort of flag or attribute you could set on a tag or maybe at a page level that ignored whitespace - but of course I can't find it now...

Htmleditorkit parser compresses whitespace whithin a PRE tag

I'm using the parser to read an html document which includes a "PRE" tag and then space/newline formatted text. All the spaces and newlines are compresesed into a single space when the handleText callback is called. Is there any way of stopping this happening? Is it a bug?

Small example follows - as suggested it was a good exercise as I've been able to determine that the issue is actually pre-formatted text following a table.
package smalltestcase;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback;
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Main m = new Main();
    public Main() {
        try {
            HTMLEditorKit.Parser parser = new ParseHTML().getParser();
            System.out.println("Test 1 - Processes <PRE> tag as expected\n");
            parser.parse(new InputStreamReader(new URL("http://www.screwtape.co.uk/test1.htm").openStream()), new Callback(), true);
            System.out.println("\n\nTest 2 - Whitespace following table is compressed\n");
            parser.parse(new InputStreamReader(new URL("http://www.screwtape.co.uk/test2.htm").openStream()), new Callback(), true);
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
    public class ParseHTML extends HTMLEditorKit {
        public HTMLEditorKit.Parser getParser() {
            return super.getParser();
    class Callback extends ParserCallback {
        public Callback() {
            super();
        public void handleText(char[] data, int pos) {
            System.out.println(data);
            for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
                System.out.print(data);
System.out.print("=" + String.valueOf((int) data[i]) + " ");
System.out.println("END");
}and the output this gives is:Test 1 - Processes <PRE> tag as expected
This is a test web page
T=84 h=104 i=105 s=115 =32 i=105 s=115 =32 a=97 =32 t=116 e=101 s=115 t=116 =32 w=119 e=101 b=98 =32 p=112 a=97 g=103 e=101 END
This is a test
with several lines
and a table made using spaces
column 1 column 2
row 1 col 1 row 1 col 2
row 2 col 1 row 2 col 2
T=84 h=104 i=105 s=115 =32 i=105 s=115 =32 a=97 =32 t=116 e=101 s=115 t=116
=10 w=119 i=105 t=116 h=104 =32 s=115 e=101 v=118 e=101 r=114 a=97 l=108 =32 l=108 i=105 n=110 e=101 s=115
=10 a=97 n=110 d=100 =32 a=97 =32 t=116 a=97 b=98 l=108 e=101 =32 m=109 a=97 d=100 e=101 =32 u=117 s=115 i=105 n=110 g=103 =32 s=115 p=112 a=97 c=99 e=101 s=115
=10 c=99 o=111 l=108 u=117 m=109 n=110 =32 1=49 =32 =32 =32 =32 =32 =32 =32 =32 =32 c=99 o=111 l=108 u=117 m=109 n=110 =32 2=50
=10 r=114 o=111 w=119 =32 1=49 =32 c=99 o=111 l=108 =32 1=49 =32 =32 =32 =32 =32 =32 r=114 o=111 w=119 =32 1=49 =32 c=99 o=111 l=108 =32 2=50
=10 r=114 o=111 w=119 =32 2=50 =32 c=99 o=111 l=108 =32 1=49 =32 =32 =32 =32 =32 =32 r=114 o=111 w=119 =32 2=50 =32 c=99 o=111 l=108 =32 2=50 END
Test 2 - Whitespace following table is compressed
This is a test web page
T=84 h=104 i=105 s=115 =32 i=105 s=115 =32 a=97 =32 t=116 e=101 s=115 t=116 =32 w=119 e=101 b=98 =32 p=112 a=97 g=103 e=101 END
This is a test before
the table
with several lines
T=84 h=104 i=105 s=115 =32 i=105 s=115 =32 a=97 =32 t=116 e=101 s=115 t=116 =32 b=98 e=101 f=102 o=111 r=114 e=101
=10 t=116 h=104 e=101 =32 t=116 a=97 b=98 l=108 e=101
=10 w=119 i=105 t=116 h=104 =32 s=115 e=101 v=118 e=101 r=114 a=97 l=108 =32 l=108 i=105 n=110 e=101 s=115
=10 END
This is a test
T=84 h=104 i=105 s=115 =32 i=105 s=115 =32 a=97 =32 t=116 e=101 s=115 t=116 END
cell in a table
c=99 e=101 l=108 l=108 =32 i=105 n=110 =32 a=97 =32 t=116 a=97 b=98 l=108 e=101 END
Test cell2
T=84 e=101 s=115 t=116 =32 c=99 e=101 l=108 l=108 2=50 END
This is a test with several lines and a table made using spaces column 1 column 2 row 1 col 1 row 1 col 2 row 2 col 1 row 2 col 2
T=84 h=104 i=105 s=115 =32 i=105 s=115 =32 a=97 =32 t=116 e=101 s=115 t=116 =32 w=119 i=105 t=116 h=104 =32 s=115 e=101 v=118 e=101 r=114 a=97 l=108 =32 l=108 i=105 n=110 e=101 s=115 =32 a=97 n=110 d=100 =32 a=97 =32 t=116 a=97 b=98 l=108 e=101 =32 m=109 a=97 d=100 e=101 =32 u=117 s=115 i=105 n=110 g=103 =32 s=115 p=112 a=97 c=99 e=101 s=115 =32 c=99 o=111 l=108 u=117 m=109 n=110 =32 1=49 =32 c=99 o=111 l=108 u=117 m=109 n=110 =32 2=50 =32 r=114 o=111 w=119 =32 1=49 =32 c=99 o=111 l=108 =32 1=49 =32 r=114 o=111 w=119 =32 1=49 =32 c=99 o=111 l=108 =32 2=50 =32 r=114 o=111 w=119 =32 2=50 =32 c=99 o=111 l=108 =32 1=49 =32 r=114 o=111 w=119 =32 2=50 =32 c=99 o=111 l=108 =32 2=50 END
Any further suggestions? I'm trying to read an external website, and have no control over the content, so unfortunately I can't adjust the source page.
TIA
DK.

Parsing CF tags - how to remove whitespace?

I have an index.cfm in which I include additional CFM pages.
index.cfm:
</head>
<cfinclude template="first.cfm">
<cfinclude template="second.cfm">
<cfinclude template="third.cfm">
<cfinclude template="forth.cfm">
<body>
After executing the file:
</head>
<body>
How can I remove these whitespace? For example first.cfm
contains the following rows:
<cfif isDefined("cookie.myCookie")>
<cfif cookie.ZulzBeta neq "1234">
<cflocation url="
http://mypage">
</cfif>
</cfif>
<cfif not isDefined("cookie.myCookie")>
<cflocation url="
http://mypage">
</cfif>
I know that using <cfscript> this problem won't happen
but there are a lot of things that I'm not able to do with
<cfscript>. What should I do?

<cfprocessingdirective suppressWhiteSpace = "Yes">
<cfinclude template="first.cfm">
<cfinclude template="second.cfm">
<cfinclude template="third.cfm">
<cfinclude template="forth.cfm">
<cfprocessingdirective suppressWhiteSpace = "No">

</cfprocessingdirective>
</cfprocessingdirective>

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