On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Chen, Gin wrote: > Hi all, > How can I use jstl when accessing values with special chars in > the name? In particular, the period. I have a param that is being > passed in as user.name for example. It does not mean name in user > object, it just comes from someone declaring fields as: > > <input type="text" name="user.name"> > <input type="text" name="user.email"> > > etc.. > > how about when the special value name is in one of the scopes? > > I cant do pageScope.user.name i'm assuming.
Right, but you can use the '[]' notation, as in ${pageScope["user.name"]} If they come directly from a form, then you'll want ${param["user.name"]} -- Shawn Bayern "JSTL in Action" http://www.jstlbook.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:taglibs-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:taglibs-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>