Hi all,
I'm using the fmt:formatDate tag and I discovered a strange behaviour:
When a JSP is requested without specifying the Accept-Language HTTP header
and no locale has been explicitly set in the JSP, the date is not formatted
and the result of Date.toString() is returned instead.
I checked
I'm not arguing whether or not it's the *best* thing to do, but the JSTL 1.1
Spec. includes:
9.9 fmt:formatDate
..
Null Error Handling
- If value is null or empty, nothing is written to the current JspWriter object
and the scoped variable is removed if it is specified (see attributes var and
hi Kris,
thank you for your answer! I'm sorry I didn't find that statement before
posting. Ok, it's 100% spec compliant... let's hope the spec will be changed
in the future. It would also be backwards-compatible since noone relies on
the *absence* of a HTTP request header to determine the date
Flavio,
You're free to add suggest such improvements for the next JSTL specs at:
https://jstl-spec-public.dev.java.net/
-- Felipe
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 10:04, Flavio Tordini wrote:
posting. Ok, it's 100% spec compliant... let's hope the spec will be changed
in the future. It would also
