Not with Tomcat 4.1.18 -- Starting with Tomcat 5 you can -- Tomcat implements JSP 2.0 (formerly referred to as JSP 1.3) which allows EL anywhere within a page.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 6:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using the standard (JSTL) tag library ... I'm using JWSDP 1.1 that includes JSTL 1.0.3 under Tomcat 4.1.18 Can I use EL outside of the JSTL tags ? Like using ${param.server} in the code below: <frameset cols="20%,*"> <frame name="allpackages" src="allpackages.jsp?server=${param.server}"> <frame name="details" src="details.jsp?server=${param.server}"> </frameset> So far it doesn't work. I read that there are two versions: "This document describes an expression language (EL) for JSP. This expression language has two versions: one applicable to the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL), the other applicable to JSP 1.3." (from JavaServerPages: Standard Tag Library V.10) but I even don't know what JSP version Tomcat 4.1 supports. -Jorge (Full example below) <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt" prefix="fmt" %> <%@ page contentType="text/html"%> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd"> <html> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/default.css" /> <title> <fmt:message key="TITLE_INDEX"> <fmt:param value="${param.server}"/> </fmt:message> </title> </head> <frameset rows="22%,*"> <frame name="onheader" src="onheader.jsp?server=${param.server}"> <frameset cols="20%,*"> <frame name="allpackages" src="allpackages.jsp?server=${param.server}"> <frame name="details" src="details.jsp?server=${param.server}"> </frameset> <noframes> <body> </body> </noframes> </frameset> </html> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]