Re: JX Template help

[Christopher Oliver]

This seems to be a limitation of JXPath. I'll try to look into it. As a 
workaround you can set your own loop index variable:

  <t:set var="position" value="#{1}"/>
  <t:forEach items="#{pageNames}">
       <a href="#" 
onmousedown="doAction('#{$PAGEACTION}','#{$position}')">#{.}</a><br/>
       <t:set var="position" value="#{$position + 1}"/>
   </t:forEach>

Jeremy Quinn wrote:

(I think I sent this just as the mailing lists were being changed 
over, my apologies if two copies arrive)



Hi All,

Anyone got an idea what I am doing wrong here?

I have a java.util.ArrayList called "pageNames", populated with 
Strings, that I want to output (along with their index) using JX 
Template.

    <t:forEach items="#{pageNames}">
        <a href="#" 
onmousedown="doAction('#{$PAGEACTION}','#{position()}')">#{.}</a><br/>
    </t:forEach>

The output I get looks like this:

    <a href="#" 
onmousedown="doAction('PAGE_THUS','0')">Abdu'Allah</a><br/>
    <a href="#" onmousedown="doAction('PAGE_THUS','0')">Budgett</a><br/>
    <a href="#" onmousedown="doAction('PAGE_THUS','0')">Evans</a><br/>
    ......                                                                 
          ^

ie. 'position()' is not working as I would expect it to do, (from my 
experience with XSLT).

Should I expect it to work the same way?
Is there an alternative way of doing this?
Thanks for any help

regards Jeremy