Truncated Strings in PrintWriter println

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When I have a string with a blank in it, I am only getting the last part of the s.toString() returned to the browser. I am guessing I have to do something creative with quotes to resolve this problem but it is not jumping out at me.

import java.io.* ;
import com.javaranch.common.* ;
public class ReverseServlet2 extends LogServlet
{
    public void doPost( PrintWriter out , CastMap parms )
    {
        String text = parms.getString( "text" );
        if ( usable( text ) )
        {
            Str s = new Str( text );
            s.reverse();
            String docType = 
                "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W#C//DTD HTML 4.0 " +
                "Transitional//EN\">\n";
            out.println( docType +
                "<html><head><title> Servlets 3 - Reverse2 </title>\n" +
                "<h2> Servlets 3 - Reverse2 </h2>\n" +
                "<br></head>\n" +
                "<form method=POST action=/servlet/ReverseServlet>\n" +
                "Text:<input type=text name=text size=50 value=" + [B]s.toString()[/B] + "><br><br>\n" +
                "<input type=submit value='submit'>\n" +
                "</form></html>" );      
        }
        else
        {
            out.println( "you must complete the field!);
        }
}

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HTML attributes should be enclosed in quotes to avoid ambiguity and strange results.

Should be (if I got them all):

For years browsers have let you get away with no quotes but all new code should stick to strict XHTML standards.
Bill

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That gets it. Thanks

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