Steve Perkins

There may be other ways to accomplish this, but here's a method that worked for me. Near the top of the page, I declared a variable holding the newline character:

<% pageContext.setAttribute("newLineChar", "\n"); %>

I was then able to use this variable in an expression down in the "<pre>" block:

<pre><c:forEach var="item" items="${allItems}">${item}${newLineChar}</c:forEach></pre>

Hope this helps someone who stumbles across this page by using the same Google terms as I did.