encoding special characers in jsp

[nanimtech]

Hi folks
In my jsp iam going to populate special characters ((*&), it is
working fine, but if i substring that one to certain limit(for ex:10)
for example if i give like --> & to populate in jsp it is
taking as --> & and it is going to substring and it is
taking upto--> &<&
but the xml parser not able to parse and thrown NotWellFormed exception
how can i overcome this one.
Advance appreciation for any ideas..

-Naresh

[rjuyal]

may be you want to use escapeHTML , escapeXML

[nanimtech]

I have tried like that .. but it is showing same thing..
can you please let me know what are all possibilities..

[rjuyal]

if you are using JSTL

<coreut value="${variableNameHodlingValue}" escapeXml="true"/>