You are trying to use nested double quotes, which is probably confusing the
parser somewhat. Try this instead:
<hi:hello foo='<%= request.getParameter("users") %>' />
Hope this helps.
--
Martin Cooper
Tumbleweed Communications
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 2:13 PM
Subject: attribute blah has no value
> HI all,
>
> I'm trying to use a dynamic value for an attribute of my tag. but I'm
> gettin this error:
> org.apache.jasper.compiler.ParseException:
> D:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.1\webapps\mycompany\test.jsp(6,46) Attribute users
> has no value at
>
org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspReader.parseAttributeValue(JspReader.java:499)
>
>
> Here's my tag entry in my tld file
>
> hi.tld
>
> <tag>
> <name>hello</name>
> <tagclass>mycompany.HelloTag</tagclass>
> <bodycontent>JSP</bodycontent>
> <attribute>
> <name>foo</name>
> <required>true</required>
> <rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
> </attribute>
> </tag>
>
> mycompany.HelloTag simply calls out.print(foo)
>
> Here's the JSP that generates the error.
> <hi:hello foo="<%= request.getParameter("users") %>" />
>
> users doesn't actually exist in the request but it should just return null
> right ?
> so when I change my jsp to this:
> <%
> String bar = request.getParameter("users");
> %>
> <hi:hello foo="<%= bar %>" />
>
> it prints out "null" and works just fine.
>
> Any suggestions ?
> Thanx
>
