Hello All, I am experiencing the same problem described by someone else in Oct. however, the solutions suggested do not work for me. When compiling a page with the fmt:setLocale tag the compiler reports the following error message:
error:null(-1,-1) <h3>jsp.error.tlv.invalid.page</h3><p>8: Illegal scope attribute without var in "fmt:setLocale" tag. Environment: jdk1.4.0_01-b03, Jakarta-Tomcat 4.1.12-LE-jdk1.4, jakarta-taglibs-standard-1.0.2 (JSTL), jakarta-struts-1.0.2, JBuilder6, Win2k The jsp is a minor variation of the struts example program (index.jsp). The minor variation is from http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/MultilingualJ SP/ (watch out for the typos in the code) and allows the user to set the language for the web page. Here is the relevant part of jsp page: <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld" prefix="logic" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/jstl-core.tld" prefix="c" %> <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/jstl-fmt.tld" prefix="fmt" %> <html:html locale="true"> <head> <title><bean:message key="index.title"/></title> <html:base/> </head> <body bgcolor="white"> <logic:notPresent name="database" scope="application"> <font color="red"> ERROR: User database not loaded -- check servlet container logs for error messages. </font> <hr> </logic:notPresent> <logic:notPresent name="org.apache.struts.action.MESSAGE" scope="application"> <font color="red"> ERROR: Application resources not loaded -- check servlet container logs for error messages. </font> </logic:notPresent> <h3><bean:message key="index.heading"/></h3> <%-- Interpret user's locale choice --%> <c:if test="${param['locale'] != null}"> <fmt:setLocale value="${param['locale']}" scope="session" /> </c:if> <%-- Offer locale choice to user --%> <a href="index.jsp?locale=en">English</a> - <a href="index.jsp?locale=es">Castellano</a> - <a href="index.jsp?locale=fr">Francais</a> Here is the relevant portion of web-xml (struts taglibs not shown): <taglib> <taglib-uri>/WEB-INF/jstl-core.tld</taglib-uri> <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/c.tld</taglib-location> </taglib> <taglib> <taglib-uri>/WEB-INF/jstl-fmt.tld</taglib-uri> <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/fmt.tld</taglib-location> </taglib> The page works (displays internationalized content) using bean:message but I want to use fmt:message because the latter accepts objects from the expression language as the value for the key while bean:message accepts only hardcoded strings, as I understand. I have tried the suggestion of using http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt in the taglib directive but the compiler reports a NullPointerException (no indication of where). Curiously, my environment disallows running the page with the "Illegal scope attribute without var in "fmt:setLocale" tag" error but does allow the page to run with the NullPointerException. Even though the page runs after the NullPointerException messages are not internationalized. Both reported errors are exclusive to the statement <fmt:setLocale value="${param['locale']}" scope="session" />. If removed the page compiles and runs, without the user selected locale of course. I have tried many variations of the taglib directive but this doesn't solve the problem. I have checked the libraries available during compilation but have yet to discover a missing library (obviously). Can someone: Point out a simple but complete working example (other than the reference at Sun already mentioned) which uses the fmt:setLocale tag? Give me some insight on why the setLocale tag looks for a var attribute when var is not an acceptable attribute for the setLocale tag? Suggest something else to to try? Thank you in advance, John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
