Re: jsp versus xml syntax

[Erik Price]

Noel J. Bergman wrote:

Do yourself a favor and skip learning the XML syntax.  It's for tools, not
people.

Oh, I would argue that considerably.  In fact I did.  That is no longer true
in JSP v2.0.

It is absolutely an absurdity to treat <jsp:action|custom-tag> differently
from <jsp:expression|declaration|scriptlet|directive>.  It is also also
ridiculous to require users to remember which obscure character (@%!=) means
what behavior.

That is the short version.  The argument presented to Sun a year or so back
was considerably longer.

So then what is the deal? A former post had me finally nodding my head in understanding that in JSPs, "use only JSP syntax, because you can't mix the two" but then this one raises the good point that "aren't <jsp:useBean> tags and custom tags XML syntax?" and they are allowed.

So for the record, what is allowed and what isn't? Sorry that I am so confused about this.


Thanks


Erik


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