Re: JSP comment tag.

[Mike Cannon-Brookes]

That's actually a little incorrect - what Orion is doing is spec compliant.

Scriptlets are not processed within comments ie (<% %>) BUT expressions are
(ie <%= %>).

Who knows why they designed the spec like this ;)

Cheers,
Mike

Mike Cannon-Brookes
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On 15/3/02 9:50 PM, "Jose Mena" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) penned the words:

> Hi, I have a problem when putting comments in JSP code. Orion doesn't
> process the code inside a comment, but if i look at the sun's jsp
> reference(http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/tags/11/syntaxref11.fm1.html) it
> says that the server must process it when it's put inside a comment.
> Here you are an example extracted from the browser's source code(Explorer):
> 
> <!--
> <tr>
>   <td><% if (modem) { %> <img src="../images/ok.gif"> <% }else{ %> <img
> src="../images/notok.gif"> <% } %></td>
>     <td><img src="../../images/blank.gif" width="8"></td>
> <td><font face="verdana" size="1"><b>Modem pitican + Tarjeta
> Ethernet:</b><font></td>
> <td><img src="../../images/blank.gif" width="8"></td>
> <td><font face="verdana" size="1"><b>400.00 &euro;</b><font></td>
> <td><img src="../../images/blank.gif" width="8"></td>
> <% if (tipprod == 3) { %>
> <td><% if (maskwan) { %> <img src="../images/ok.gif"> <% }else{ %> <img
> src="../images/notok.gif"> <% } %></td>
>       <td><img src="../../images/blank.gif" width="8"></td>
> <td ><font face="verdana" size="1"><b>Mask WAN:</b></font></td>
>       <td><img src="../../images/blank.gif" width="8"></td>
> <td nowrap><font face="verdana" size="1"><b>40.08 &euro;</b><font></td>
> <% } else { %>
> <td><% if (inst_mod) { %> <img src="../images/ok.gif"> <% }else{ %> <img
> src="../images/notok.gif"> <% } %></td>
>       <td><img src="../../images/blank.gif" width="8"></td>
> <td><font face="verdana" size="1"><b>Instalación y configuración de
> Modem:</b></font></td>
>       <td><img src="../../images/blank.gif" width="8"></td>
> <td nowrap><font face="verdana" size="1"><b>40.08 &euro;</b><font></td>
> <% } %>
> </tr>
> 
> -->
> 
> as you can see it shows my code to the end user's browser without processing
> it.
> Do you know if there is a setting that controls the comment processing
> behaviour in orion?
> Thank you.
> 
>