Complicated select - option structure?

[Janne Mattila]

I am toying around with a simple test application. In one page user creates 
a new record, and picks the artist for that record with a select pulldown. 
My artist object has a first name and a last name separately. Initially I 
displayed only last name:

     <html-el:select property="artistId">
       <html-el:optionsCollection property="allArtists" value="id" 
label="lastName"/>
     </html-el:select>

Quite nice and compact. When I wanted to include also the last name, best I 
could come up with was:

     <html-el:select property="artistId">
       <c:forEach var="artist" items="${recordForm.allArtists}">
         <html-el:option value="${artist.id}">
           <c:out value="${artist.firstName} ${artist.lastName}"/>
         </html-el:option>
       </c:forEach>
     </html-el:select>
It seems quite complicated - is there any way to use EL and 
optionsCollectionTag, for example, to achieve a simpler structure?

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