JSP for Vcard cannot strip carriage return in the last line of the file.

Question

I am using JSP to output a Vcard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard)
The following code works great in Windows but fails on the mac:
<%@ page contentType="text/x-vcard" %><%--
--%><%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %><%--
--%><%@ taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %><%--
--%>BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
<c:choose><%--
--%><c:when test="${not ((empty param.lan) and (empty param.fin)) }"><%--
--%>N:${param.lan};${param.fin}
FN:${param.fin} ${param.lan}
</c:when><%--
--%><c:otherwise><%--
--%>FN:${param.org}
</c:otherwise><%--
--%></c:choose><%--
--%>ORG:${param.org}
TITLE:${param.title}
TEL;WORK;VOICE:${param.phwork}
ADR;WORK:;;${param.st};${param.city};${param.state};${param.zip};
EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:${param.email}
REV:20080424T195243Z
<c:out value="${fn:replace('END:VCARD','\\\r','')}" escapeXml="false"/>After some tests, I discovered that Mac (I used Tiger, latest update, not Leopard) needs extra white space and carriage returns stripped off. Once this is achieved, the vcard will automatically import into Address Book. I have followed other forums which advice on using JSP comments as in the code above. But for some strange reason the last line of the JSP outputs an extra carraige return. How do I get rid of the carriage return at the end of the file? the replace function from JSTL is not working.
Edited by: shogo2040 on Dec 18, 2008 7:11 PM : I added more detail to the Subject

Answer 1

I originally had that END:VCARD without any carriage return.
But I still get an extra carriage return at the end when the JSP renders to VCF
I'm using Tomcat running on Linux.
I found this, article which implies (but does not explicitly say) JSP in general adds a newline to the last line:
http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/jsp/faq.xtp (But its not tomcat either, so maybe this info is irrelevant).
Edited by: shogo2040 on Dec 22, 2008 3:31 PM - changed rendered to VCF from rendered to JSP