Hey I was actually going to use it to place an " " in a cell of a table if a certain bean attribute didn't exist.
I've settled on using <logic:equals> instead, which is fine with me. 6 of one.....13 of another..... Is there a better way to do this that I'm missing? John John Mattos Sr. Developer and Architect iNDEMAND 345 Hudson St. 16th Floor New York, New York 10014 -----Original Message----- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: "if" tag How many pages do you need an If tag / scriplet for? Why not switch the Action forward to choose the right page? Just have 2 pages with no Ifs. Perhaps I'm being too simplistic. On Tue, 12 February 2002, "Knoll, Zach" wrote: > > I totally agree with you. The only issue/desire that I have is that because > scriplets can get easily out of hand by developers with little patience or > time to learn tags, I would love it if we could enforce the JSP compiler to > only compile XML compliant JSP's thereby forcing the developer to not code > with scriplets. Of-course the downside is that if we do this we will have to > use tags for everything including simple "if's" on the other hand though, we > will guarantee that the JSP's will not have 100's of lines of un-readable > scriplets which outweighs the negatives by an exponential factor. Therefore > if my dream should ever come true we will need the "if" tag. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Gibbons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:06 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: "if" tag > > > > How can > > <logic:if name="blah" value="xxx"> > > <logic:else> > </logic:else> > </logic:if> (or whatever) > > be better. It's just different, but not better, and scriptlets are evil > when they go mad and get out of hand, they are not evil of themselves. > > Jonathan > > > ---------------------------------------- Message History > ---------------------------------------- > > > From: "Mattos, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/02/2002 11:52 EST > > Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > Subject: RE: "if" tag > > > Ya think? > > Well, if that's true, forget it. I'll just use scriptlets, although I feel > like we're mixing too much java that way. > > John > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Gibbons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:38 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: "if" tag > > > > If there are plans for an if then else tag can they please be dropped. > > Scriptlets are far cleaner than inventing a tag which exactly mimics java. > > Jonathan > > > > ---------------------------------------- Message History > ---------------------------------------- > > > From: "Mattos, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 12/02/2002 10:59 EST > > Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "'Struts Users Mailing List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > Subject: "if" tag > > > Hi all > > Are there any plans in the next release of Struts to have a logic:if tag? > > John > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > -- > > This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. 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