Paul, Thank you very much. That solved the problem. We moved to 2.4 and EL works the way I had hoped. We were referencing 2.2.
Thanks, Kurt -- Kurt Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Kurt, > > JSP 2.0 containers have EL turned off implicitly if you are not using the > Servlet 2.4 spec. Check the top of your web.xml file -- if you see it is > referencing the 2.3 DTD, you need to change it the 2.4 schema. > > Thanks, > Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 2:39 PM > To: user@struts.apache.org > Subject: EL Mystery > > > I have been trying to solve a mystery concerning EL. > > We are using 4 taglibs in our project: > > <%-- JSTL tag libs --%> > <%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="/WEB-INF/fmt.tld" %> > <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="/WEB-INF/c.tld" %> > > <%-- Struts provided Taglibs --%> > <%@ taglib prefix="html" uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html-el.tld" %> > <%@ taglib prefix="logic" uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic-el.tld" %> > > They are working fine and respond to EL included in their tags. > > However, if we try to use EL outside of a tag it simply renders the EL into > the HTML. > > ${login.fullName} appears as ${login.fullName} on the rendered page. > > <c:out value="${login.fullName}"/> renders as the user full name. > > In trying to track down why the naked EL won't work I added > isELIgnored="false" to the page directive for the page and if we are not > using any tags with EL in them it works. The naked EL will render what we > are expecting. But as soon as we have a tag with EL in a value or other > attribute the page will error on compile. > > I'm confused because I thought EL was active by default and it does work in > our tags but not outside of any tags. Once we place the isELIgnored="false" > in the page directive the EL works outside of the tags but fails when used > inside some of the tags. > > Can some one shed some light on this mystery? Also I have heard that using > EL outside of tags can be a security problem and that it is better to use a > <c:out value="${EL}"/> instead. > > Thanks, > Kurt > > -- > Kurt Williams > Marex Services > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Notice: This e-mail message, together with any attachments, contains > information of Merck & Co., Inc. (One Merck Drive, Whitehouse Station, New > Jersey, USA 08889), and/or its affiliates (which may be known outside the > United > States as Merck Frosst, Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD and in Japan, as Banyu) > that > may be confidential, proprietary copyrighted and/or legally privileged. It is > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named on this > message. > If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in > error, > please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and then delete it from your > system. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
