taglib directives confusion

[Travis McCauley]

Hello,

I am still new to jsp and jstl and I'm a little confused about why it is not necessary to add a taglib directive at the top of a page for the standard taglib like:

<%@ taglib prefix = "c" uri = "http://java.sun.com/jstl/core"; %>

In fact, when I included this unnecessarily, I got some weird printouts when I referred to null bean attributes in an EL statement.

Why is this not necessary? It is necessary for all the other taglibs libraries.

Also, I found that using tomcat 4.0.6, the xml version of the taglib directive didn't work. Is that other people's experience as well?

Just curious,
Travis

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