How to Display a XML string in richfaces?

[its_me]

Hello All,

We have an application which has a formatted XML string saved in the database. When we display it on screen, the spaces and the tabs are getting cut and we see the string as a continuous string. This problem occurs only while displaying on screen. The download works fine. The following is the command used for display:

<h:outputText value="#{myBean.docContent}"

                                                  styleClass="c41f4" style="word-wrap: break-word;display: block;"  />

We tried h:outputFormat too. It still doesnt help.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks and Regards,

Nid...................

[healeyb]

Try style="white-space: pre" or style="white-space: pre-wrap" (possibly in conjunction with what

you are already specifying), and use h:outputText escape="false":

<h:panelGroup layout="block">

  <h:outputText escape="false" style="white-space: pre" value="..."/>

</h:panelGroup>

If this doesn't work try wrapping the outputText in <pre></pre> tags. Using escape="false" introduces

the risk of cross site scripting attacks if the content being displayed is user entered, so be aware.

Regards,

Brendan.

[its_me]

Hello Brendan,

We tried your solution, but still the string gets displayed without any spaces/return/tabs. Thus it doesnt look like a XML still

Regards,

Nid..............