Hmmm... We found in section JSP 2.6 (page 41) in the Core Syntax and Semantics chapter of the JSP 1.2 specification that this...
<mytags:tag value="<%= "hi!" %>" /> ...is expressly illegal. Should this be considered to be a bug in Jasper? "Sean Dockery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello, > > We recently came upon an issue in migrating our web application from > Tomcat 4.1.x to SAP Web AS 6.4 SP7. > > Here is an example of the offending code (which involves indexed beans > managed by a Struts ActionForm): > > <logic:iterate ... indexId="offset"> > Name: <html:text property="<%= "people[" + offset + "].name" %>"/> > </logic:iterate> > > The quotes embedded in the property attribute's runtime expression work > fine under Tomcat, but failed under SAP Web AS during JSP translation. > The Web AS JSP compiler sees the quote before the word people as the > closing delimiter for the property attribute value. > > We found that the following variations work in both Tomcat and SAP Web > AS. > > <html:text property='<%= "people[" + offset + "].name" %>'/> > (using apostrophes instead of quotes to delimit the attribute values) > > <html:text property="<%= \"people[\" + offset + \"].name\" %>"/> > (escaping the embedded quotes) > > The former solution seems to be sanctioned (according to Google, anyway). > The latter solution (though looking to be pure evil) seems to solve a > situation where you would have both quotes and apostrophes in the same > attribute value. > > Is there anything in the (current or previous) JSP specification dealing > with quotes embedded in runtime expressions? (It is an unfortunately > happy coincidence that Jasper supports embedded quotes; anyone else > enjoying this behaviour should be aware that it may not be supported by > other containers.) > > Thanks for your precious time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
