>Hi Paul. Sorry for my delay in answering questions! I've been on the
>road.
Yeah, I wondered about that. Usually JSTL questions on this list get
answered in a matter of minutes. :-)
>
>> JSTL allows varName[propertyName] syntax. I'm curious about the quoting
>> requirements for propertyName. For example, in the JSTL spec, page 3-20,
>> there is an example that looks like this:
>>
>> <c:out value='${user.preferences["shipping"]}'/>
>>
>> Most examples in the spec use double quotes around attribute values,
>> but this example switches to single quotes so that the property name
>> can be double-quoted.
>>
>> I thought perhaps it was a requirement that the property name be
>> enclosed in double quotes, but a few tests using single quotes seem to
>> work as well. Is that officially supported, or did I just get lucky?
>
>Single quotes are a valid quoting syntax in JSTL's expression language; a
>single-quoted sequence of characters is interpreted as a string literal.
>Thus,
>
> preferences['shipping']
>
>is okay. The choice of which quoting mechanism to use is predominantly a
>matter of style and convenience.
Good, thanks. I prefer to always double-quote attributes for consistency,
so I'll use single quotes around property names.
>
>--
>Shawn Bayern
>"JSP Standard Tag Library" http://www.jstlbook.com
>(coming in July 2002 from Manning Publications)
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