I think that <bean:define> does what you want.
<bean:define id="altTxt" property="someImage.alt.text"/>
<html:img src="someImage.png" alt="<%= altTxt %>"/>
HTH,
Pete
Howard Moore wrote:
> Can anybody suggest how I can add internationalised alt text to the
> <html:img> tag?
>
> If it were legal I would like to do something like the following;
>
> <html:img src="someImage.png" alt="<bean:message
> key='someImage.alt.text'/>"/>
>
> but you can't nest tags like this.
>
> If not does anybody think it would be useful to add an optional 'id'
> attribute to the <bean:message> tag which, if set, causes the translated
> message to be stored in a page context bean with the given name rather than
> being written out? This would allow me to write something like;
>
> <bean:message id="altTxt" key="someImage.alt.text"/>
> <html:img src="someImage.png" alt="<%= altTxt %>"/>
>
> It would also allow translated strings to be cached in the page if they are
> going to be used repeatedly (inside a <logic:iterate> tag, for example).
> This may improve performance considerably.
>
> Any comments?
>
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