No, a custom tag is not admissible as a tag attribute.
You can pass your attributes in a Map.
Wellington
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Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 4:08 PM
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Subject: custom tag as attribute of another custom tag
Can someone tell me if it is possible to have a custom tag as an
ATTRIBUTE of another custom tag? I have been unable to find the answer
to this question. I am trying to use a <bean:write/> within the "href"
attribute of <html:link/> in order to dynamically get the value of
"Param3" which is in bean "ampp". See below:
<html:link href="ui.do?Param1=123&Param2=N&Param3=<bean:write
name="ampp" property="AMTRSD00.trDept"/>">
<bean:message key="myLinkText"/>
</html:link>
The compile error I get is:
"javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: You must specify a name attribute if
the property attribute is present"
It seems to me that this would be an fairly common requirement of custom
tags. I could modify the <html:link/> tag to always evaluate the "href"
attribute to see if the <bean:write/> tag is present and if so retrieve
that value -- but that doesn't sound very clean. I am trying to use
custom tags as much as possible and Java scriptlets as little as
possible. I could use the standard HTML <a/> instead of <html:link/> or
else continue to use <html:link/> and retrieve the value with Java
scriptlet -- neither of which is ideal.
Thanks for your help.
Brennan O'Shea
