Absolutely- I've not heard of another taglib that uses this syntax. AFAIK, JSTL requires a JSP 1.2 container, but I think that JSP EL - as implemented in commons - has no such dependency.
I'd be willing to supply a patch if there is interest. -----Original Message----- From: John York [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 2:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [displaytag-devel] PageContext / el not supported This is one of the features that I don't think we should release. It would be better to pull it out until we can get commons-el in place than to force people to use this custom syntax. Or at least, make it clear in the documentation that this feature will most certainly be changed in the next release. Just my $.02 John On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Fabrizio Giustina wrote: > Object placed in the pageContext ARE found by the the table tag, but > you have to explicitely set the scope: > > <% pageContext.setAttribute( "test", new TestList( 10 ) ); %> > <display:table name="pageScope.test"> > > The main reason for not using jstl expression till now is that jstl > requires j2ee 1.3, and I want to preserve compatibility with 1.2. I'm > planning to look at the recent commons-el package from Jakarta to > implement an el version of the display taglib. > > fabrizio > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Pruitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [displaytag-devel] PageContext / el not supported > > > Lists placed in the pageContext are not being found by the new display > tag. > > Would it be possible to simply use the JSTL el evaluator? It would > mean replacing TemplateTag#evaluateExpression with something like: > > return ExpressionEvaluatorManager.evaluate("name", valueEl, > String.class, this, pageContext); > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > displaytag-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-devel > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > displaytag-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-devel > -- John York Software Engineer CareerSite Corporation ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ displaytag-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ displaytag-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-devel
