And that of course solved the problem although I'm surprised that (a) its required, and (b) "true" isn't the default. Although I searched diligently I didn't find this in the FAQ. I suggest that it be added or made more prominent as it looks like a pretty easy mistake to make.
Cordially, Paul D. Gillen RiverAlph: Enabling the Intraprise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Raible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Tomcat Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 5:47 PM Subject: RE: Tag Attribute Doesn't Have Expression Interpreted > Add this after <name> in your .tld > > <rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul D. Gillen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 3:33 PM > To: TomcatDiscussion > Subject: Tag Attribute Doesn't Have Expression Interpreted > > > Having not gotten a reply to an earlier post, and being of the impatient > sort, I cobbled together a pared down demo of a problem I'm having where a > tag's attribute is given a value from an expression but the expression is > never interpreted. > > HTML: > <%@ page > language="java" > contentType="text/html" > %> > <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/tlds/default.tld" prefix="tt" %> > <html> > <head> > <% > String foo = "expression"; > %> > </head> > <body> > <tt:tTag var="<%=foo%>" /> > </body> > </html> > > TAG SOURCE: > package org.tagTest; > > import javax.servlet.jsp.*; > import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.*; > > public class ttag extends TagSupport > { > private String var; > > public void setVar(String v) { var = v; } > > public int doEndTag () > { > try { pageContext.getOut().println(var); } > catch(Exception e) { } > return EVAL_PAGE; > } > } > > TAGLIB DEFS: > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> > > <!DOCTYPE taglib > PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.1//EN" > "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-jsptaglibrary_1_1.dtd";> > > <taglib> > <tlibversion>1.0</tlibversion> > > <jspversion>1.1</jspversion> > <shortname>tagTest</shortname> > > <tag> > <name>tTag</name> > <tagclass>org.tagTest.ttag</tagclass> > <attribute> > <name>var</name> > </attribute> > </tag> > </taglib> > > RESULTANT PAGE SOURCE: > <html> > <head> > > </head> > <body> > <%=foo%> > > </body> > </html> > > >
