How to display a String that contains more than one white spaces

[thachun]

Hi all,

I am facing a problem about displaying a String including more one white space at the middle in the Label form. Here is my line code in a JSP page:
...
<c:out value="${profile.profileName}" />
...
All of us knew that HTML rendering will automatically trim the white space. Therefore if in the database the profile name has 3 white spaces at the middle, then it will be trimmed 2 white spaces.

However, if I encodes that string into "1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2" and set escapeXml to false, then the displayed string will be correct.

It seems that this attribute can help me out but unfortunately if user enters a value "&nbsp" for the Profile name field, then since I set escapeXml to false, a white space will be displayed instead of the value user entered.

Is there any way to solve my issue?

Thanks ahead for your help!

[travishein]

Can you place the c out tag inside a <pre> or a <div> tag with the CSS
white-space : pre;

(and then leave excapeXML to true)

[thachun]

I wonder whether you are working in Kofax :-). Right?