[Building Sakai] Sitebrowser description

[Daniel Merino]

Hi all.

We are experiencing the problems described in the JIRA 
http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-13149 . This JIRA is 
related to another one 
(http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-15823) where is a patch, 
but I think that this patch is for Sakai 2.6 and we need to apply it to 
2.5.3. The problem is that, in the Site Browser tool,  the descriptions 
of the sites are made with HTML and this umbalance all the display.

I have been tracking the code and in the velocity file 
/site-manage-tool/tool/src/webapp/vm/sitebrowser/chef_sitebrowser_list.vm 
there is this:

$validator.escapeHtml($desc)

And AFAIK, in the class 
site-manage/tags/sakai_2-5-3/site-manage-tool/tool/src/java/org/sakaiproject/site/tool/SiteBrowserAction.java 
is implemented the logic of the application.

I would like to know how could I add in SiteBrowserAction.java some 
plainText method to convert the HTML to plain text, as in the patch's 
class 
(http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/jira/secure/attachment/17753/SiteTextEditUtil.java) 
and after, how could I pass this new text to the vm file.

I don't know very much of Velocity, I'm sorry if this question is too basic.

Of course, if somebody has patched this already in their 2.5.X, I would 
be very grateful to try his patch.

Thanks in advance.
Regards.
-- 
Daniel Merino
daniel.merino at unavarra.es
Gestor de teleformación - Centro Superior de Innovación Educativa.
Tfno: 948-168489 - Universidad Pública de Navarra.