You're right, Avinash. I could have used the name bean in html:text to populate the field w/ its property. But your example is useful to assign a property value of a bean to another property.
Thanks, -Frank > -----Original Message----- > From: Avinash Gangadharan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:10 PM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: RE: Why <bean:write...> does not work > > > Frank, > You cannot have that working. To do something like that you'll need to > use the html-el tags along with JSTL core tags and do something like > > <c:set var="param" value="<%=Constants.GROUP_RESULT %>"/> > <html-el:text maxlength="50" property="groupName" size="32" > value="${param}"/> > > Ofcourse you would need to include those taglibs ( core and -el ). > > But why do you want to set the value as the form bean should populate it > using the > Property ("groupName") of the bean. > > Avinash > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 3:50 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Why <bean:write...> does not work > > > I have a form for record updating. To refill a field (called > groupName) with > a bean's (GROUP_RESULT, saved by setAttribute()) property value, I do: > > <html:form> > ... > <html:text maxlength="50" property="groupName" size="32" value='<%= <bean: > write name='<%= Constants.GROUP_RESULT %>' property="groupName" /> %>'/> > > I kept getting compilation error: > > edit_group.jsp(28,93) Attribute value should be quoted > at > org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspReader.parseToken(JspReader.java:487) > at > org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspReader.parseAttributeValue(JspReader > .java:533) > at > org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspReader.parseTagAttributes(JspReader. > java:644) > > Does anyone know why ? Thanks in advance. > > -Frank > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]