>Indeed, the syntax isn't valid XML. However, documents that
>produce web
>pages -- or even XML documents -- need not be authored in XML.
You're right. It's just that it feels a little bit odd with using a XML
syntax and then not produce xml compatible documents felt a
little...strange. But it seems that we both agree on this matter.
> * In JSP 2.0, you'll be able to write
>
> <a href="${myUrl}" />
>
> which is valid XML.
> * In JSP 2.0, you'll also be able to construct the <a>
>element manually
> using tags in the "jsp" namespace, much as you'd do in XSLT.
Great features, both of them. It's great that it will be possible to use EL
in template text in 2.0. That makes JSP even more template-like.
>We really couldn't have added this to JSTL, since one of the
>goals was to
>avoid tying JSTL to HTML in particular. Instead, we adopted a
>longer-term
>view, realizing that the problems would be fixed automatically
>under JSP
>2.0.
I kind of figured that it in fact where a workaround for the fact that EL
can't be placed in template text. And of course you're right that a jsp page
will be compiled and after that it really doesn't matter, but still it felt
a bit awkward.
>Thanks for the great comments about JSTL! It's great to hear you're
>finding the spec useful. Best,
>
I'm the one that should thank for a very nice spec. I'm almost a bit
surprised that I haven't heard more about it then I have. I follow about 20
disucssion groups where 7 or 8 are related to Java in one way or another,
and I haven't seen to much talk about JSTL. Or perhaps I was blind to the
JSTL discussion before I learned what it was about.
/Erik Beijnoff, Sweden, Addsystems
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