Jhs 10.1.2 : ampersand eacute; converted to ampersand amp;eacute;

Question

Hello all,
First of all congratulations to the whole team of JHeadstart for the great job you are doing. I am evaluating different products to generate standard to complex database interfaces and Jhs looks very promising to me.
Now on with the trouble: my interface will offer to the users the possibility to enter standard HTML escaping sequence for accentuated characters like for example <ampersand>eacute; (because they do not have this particular character on their keyboard). Those characters are stored as-is in an Oracle database.
When using JHeadstart generated interfaces, either with uix or jsp, those characters are well extracted from the database but are converted at display time to <ampersand>amp;eacute; (this is visible in the html source code of the page). This makes those characters displayed as <ampersand>eacute; to the user, where I would like them to be displayed as é (this conversion should be done automatically by the browser if the original character has not been modified by JHeadstart).
Is there a way with JHeadstart to tell that a particular field of the database should not be translated (<ampersand> converted to <ampersand>amp;)? Or is there any workaround to this issue?
Thanks in advance for your reply.
David

Answer 1

David,
Thank you for the kind words, and you haven't seen 10.1.3 yet :-)
You can achieve what you want by telling the UIX item to not escape html characters. You do this by using a <rawText/> element rather than the generated messageTextInput element.
In 10.1.2, you need to make this change post-generation, and then switch off page generation for this group to preserve your post-generation change.
In 10.1.3 you keep your page generatable by creating a custom item template for all items in your app that should not escape html.
Steven Davelaar,
JHeadstart Team.