According to the JSP 1.1 spec:
Action elements follow the syntax of XML elements, i.e. have a
start tag, a body and an end tag:
<mytag attr1="attribute value" ...>
body
</mytag>
or an empty tag
<mytag attr1="attribute value" .../>
But, the JSP 1.1 spec doesn't seem to explicitly state that
<mytag attr1="attribute value" ...></mytag>
should be treated as an empty tag.
On the other hand, the JSP 2.0 draft spec clearly shows this as a valid
empty tag.
When using Tomcat 3.2.3, a tag library that I'm using has the <bodycontent>
tag in the TLD set to "empty" throws an exception stating that the body is
supposed to be empty when the tag is in the following format:
<mytag></mytag>.
I presume that Tomcat was developed to support the empty tag as explicitly
stated in the JSP 1.1 spec, although based on the JSP 2.0 draft it looks
like the intent (or clarification) is that an opening and closing tag with
no content (not even a space; e.g, <mytag></mytag>) is to be treated as an
empty tag. Does anyone know if this behavior has changed in more recent
versions of Tomcat, and if so, when this change occurred?
Thanks,
Steve
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