RE: What is the right way to iterate

[Mike Burati]

From JSF1.1 Spec section 9.2.8:   JSF component custom actions may not be nested inside a custom action that iterates over its body (such as JSTL’s <c:forEach>). Instead, you should use a Renderer that performs its own iteration (such as the Table renderer used by <h:dataTable>).   ********************************** Michael Burati Senior Software Engineer Bowstreet 200 Ames Pond Drive Tewksbury, MA 01876 T 978-863-1512 F 978-863-1555 www.bowstreet.com Get the latest information on Bowstreet's events and web seminars.   From: Randahl Fink Isaksen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 12:20 PM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: What is the right way to iterate I have been trying to use c:forEach in my jspx pages but I keep experiencing different kinds of problems. An example:         <c:forEach items="${treeMenuContractBean.menuItems}" var="menuItem">             <div style="margin-left: ${menuItem.marginLeft}">                 <c:out value="${menuItem.prelude}"/>                 <h:outputLink title="#{menuItem.name}" value="#{menuItem.uri}">                     <c:out value="${menuItem.name}"/>                 </h:outputLink>                 <c:out value="${menuItem.postlude}"/>             </div>         </c:forEach> When this is run, I get <a id="tree-menu-contract:_id1" href=""></a> <a id="tree-menu-contract:_id2" href=""></a> <div style="margin-left: 0px">The name of menu item 0</div> <div style="margin-left: 50px">The name of menu item 1</div> Now as you can see this result has several problems: The #{} value bindings have no effect - it is as if the menuItem var is invisible to JSF, thus the href attribute is empty The div tags do not surround the anchor tags as intended - is it really a requirement to use the x:div tag? So I have been thinking that maybe using c:forEach is not compatible with JSF - is there an alternative? Any hints will be highly appreciated. Randahl