Walter Jerusalinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I believe that JSP Team's idea is to find better tags than <INCLUDEIF> and
><LOOP> for 1.0, not to eliminate its functionality .- Think that both were
>questioned in this list, with good reasons, I guess.-
As it stands now, though, those of us who have found value in these tags
have two choices:
1) Upgrade to 1.0 and rewrite all of our JSP pages to use scriptlets for
looping and conditionals.
2) Don't upgrade to 1.0, and continue using our 0.92 JSP engines until 1.1
is released, either with improved tags or the ability for us to write
our own tags.
I predict, however, that as soon as 1.1 becomes available, someone is going
to write and release a tag library that implements the 0.92 tags (it might
even be me :). To save much anguish in the meantime, then, I would like to
suggest that the 1.0 spec include optional support for such a tag library,
now.
I suspect it would not be difficult for at least some of the current JSP
engines which support the 0.92 tags to allow these tags to be prefixed with
a tag library namespace (i.e., <loop> becomes <compat92:loop> or something
along those lines). The advantage here, is that those of us using the 0.92
tags just have to do a simple text substitution, and we're back in
business, ready to take advantage of the other great features 1.0 has added.
I suppose, given that the <%@ taglib> directive is there, it isn't
absolutely necessary for 1.0 to formalize a compatibility library, even if
it's completely optional: some enterprising JSP vendor could do this on
their own and still be otherwise compliant with 1.0. I can guarantee them
at least one sale... :)
- Mark
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