Craig: I tried this and it worked flawlessly. Thank you for the info.
Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, JAMM Consulting, (972)612-6056, www.JAMMConsulting.com FREE! Valuable info on how your business can reduce operating costs by 17% or more in 6 months or less! http://newsletter.JAMMConsulting.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:22 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Handle images path in one place > > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 23:09:51 -0500, Erik Weber > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, I was using the html-el tag, not the html tag: > > > > <html-el:img src="${somePath}/images/foo.jpg"/> > > > > I think you should be able to do what you want without the > el tags if > > you are using JSP 2.0, but to be honest, someone else needs > to jump in > > and bail me out here on that. I think it's a configuration > problem. (web > > app 2.3 v 2.4 or something?) > > You are definitely on the right track. > > If you are using a Servlet 2.4/JSP 2.0 container (such as Tomcat 5.x), > you can enable support for EL expressions globally in your pages (even > in template text -- it doesn't have to be in a custom tag attribute). > This requires telling the container that you are a Servlet 2.4 webapp, > by including the following as the root element: > > <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" > > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" > xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee > http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" > version="2.4"> > > instead of the DOCTYPE declaration used on previous versions. Doing > this makes the struts-el library totally superfluous -- EL expressions > work as expected on all the standard Struts tags. > > This capability lets you do some cute things, even without a lot of > custom tags. Consider the following example (using JSTL tags) where > "customers" is an attribute that contains an array (or List) of > Customer beans. > > <table> > <tr> > <th>Id</th> > <th>Name</th> > </tr> > <c:forEach items="${customers}" var="customer"> > <tr> > <td>${customer.id}</td> > <td>${customer.name}</td> > </tr> > </c:forEach> > </table> > > (Note that you can get the same sort of filtering that <bean:write> > does for you, to avoid cross site scripting attacks, by using things > like "<c:out value='${customer.id}'/>" instead of "${customer.id}" if > you need it.) > > (If you want to do *input* into a table like this, consider using > JavaServer Faces (JSF) components like <h:dataTable> instead ... it > manages all the hard parts for you.) > > > > > Erik > > > > Craig > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]