Sorry, sent before seeing Bill's reply and reading that you've got an easy
workaround which is probably the same thing...
Quoting Kris Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> So, something like this doesn't work?
>
> <x:out select="/foo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/>
>
> Find the "bar" element with an attribute "x" equal to the value of USER's
> "full_name". What if you add a level of indirection:
>
> <c:set var="fullName" value="${USER.full_name}"/>
> <x:out select="/foo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/>
>
> Quoting Rick Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I have a scoped variable called 'USER' with a variety of the usual bean
> style
> > properties. Naturally, it's just a convenient place to hold the user
> > properties and in the EL, it's quite easy to get them ${USER.full_name}.
>
> > However, if I want to predicate an XPath query (in an x: tag select
> > statement) on information in the USER object, I don't think I can do that.
>
> > The spec doesn't mention it and Mr. Bayern's book is not available on
> Safari.
> > "Core JSTL" also makes no comment here.
> >
> > A brief look at the 1.1 JSTL spec didn't turn anything up either. Now I
> can
> > easily get around the problem, but it would be immensely more powerful if
> we
> > could embed the EL in our XPath statements. It shouldn't bee too hard to
> > parse, with ${ } surrounding the EL's inside the XPath as XPath does not
> > define any of those three characters. The only obvious issue would be
> > escaped "${" in predicate text.
> >
> > I certainly understand if this was intentionally left out, but the fact
> that
> > we cannot really even dynamically replace select statements with EL,
> combined
> > with no bean style property access, seems to leave a large functionality
> gap.
> >
> >
> > Or am I just whining? :-)
> >
> > Rick
>
>
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