> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of John York > > How does the JSTL forEach tag handle this? Glancing at it, it > looks like > you always need to specify ${} around everything. If you > don't, it just > assumes that what was specified for 'items' is the item itself: > > <c:forEach items="item1" var="item"> > <c:out value="${item}"/> > </c:forEach> > > prints out 'item1', which kinda surprised me.
I believe that the forEach tag will let you do comma delimited items - i.e. items="1,2,3" - so that's why this works. I think it makes sense for the regular displaytag to allow name and the EL tag to allow "name" for named attributes in some scope - and then use "list" or "items" for grabbing something like the sql:query tag's rows. It seems to make more sense to me. It's probably not *that* big of a deal, but it should be somewhat intuitive - or we're going to spend a lot of time supporting it (regardless of documentation). My $0.02. Matt ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ displaytag-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/displaytag-devel
