> -----Original Message----- > From: peter lin [mailto:peter.lin@;labs.gte.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 4:05 AM > To: Tag Libraries Users List > Subject: Re: Whitespace generated by JSTL tags > > > > there were discussions a while back on this topic. I submitted a > suggestion to the expert group for JSP requarding this issue for JSP > compile filters. Using compression is one fix, but it doesn't really > address the heart of the problem. If you look at the generated source > file, you will see tons of out.write for all those blank > lines. It's a > bit wasteful to have all blank lines, so there should be a clear > specification on how JSP page compiler should remove extra spaces if > application desires. > > I had several discussions with the developers of Jasper2. The current > spec states the whitespace and blank lines have to be preserved. I'm > hoping the JSP spec after 2.0 will address this issue and make it a > configurable.
Yes, it would have to be configurable. A lot of people seem to assume that JSP always generates HTML to it's safe to always collapse whitespace, but that's not true, and whitespace sometimes matters. -- Martin Cooper > > peter > > > Wolfgang R�ckelein wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Hans Bergsten wrote: > > > Anyway, the best way to handle it is probably to use a filter that > > > compresses the response (most browsers supports > compressed responses > > > today) since that would reduce the space needed for both > whitespace > > > and repeated tags. See this article for an example of the > implementation > > > of such a filter: > > > > > > > <http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2001/jw-0622-filters.html> > > > > Has anybody used this filer with a recent tomcat Version? > > > > I mostly get 0 length files from this filter (Tomcat 4.1.12) ... > > > > Thank you for any hints, > > Wolfgang > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:taglibs-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:taglibs-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:taglibs-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:taglibs-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:taglibs-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:taglibs-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
