On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, James Turner wrote:
> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 13:26:34 -0500 > From: James Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Another bright idea, > make "indexed" work with JSTL forEach and friends > > As has been pointed out, about the only remaining reason to use > logic:iterate over c:forEach is that you can't use an html:text tag (or > friends) with an "indexed" property set, because it only looks for > logic:iterate on the page stack. > > Now, it would be very simple (having peered at the source) to have the > html tags also look for JSTL iterators. However, to make this work, > we'd need to add a dependency on jakarta-taglibs so that the class would > be available. > > I don't think that this would break anything in terms of JSP version > support, since it wouldn't require evaluation of ELs, just looking up > the stack to see if we find a JSTL interator hanging around. > Unless you can do this all with reflection (instead of instanceof and direct method calls), you'll create NoClassDefFound errors for people who don't have the JSTL library in the stack. Other than that caution, I'm +1. > Opinions? Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
