We won't be going to Tomcat 5 at work for a couple of months yet, but I'll try it out at home when I have some spare time.
"Shapira, Yoav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, What happens with Tomcat 5.x? (To which JSP Spec 2.0, not 1.2, applies). The reason I ask is that while you can file away bugs against 4.x to your heart's content, it's not being actively developed and you shouldn't hold your breath waiting for a fix. Yoav Shapira http://www.yoavshapira.com >-----Original Message----- >From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Dockery >Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:21 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Custom tag attribute runtime expression containing and >delimited by quotes. Supported in Tomcat, but not other JSP containers. >What is the standard? > >Hmmm... We found in section JSP 2.6 (page 41) in the Core Syntax and >Semantics chapter of the JSP 1.2 specification that this... > ><mytags:tag value="<%= "hi!" %>" /> > >...is expressly illegal. > >Should this be considered to be a bug in Jasper? > >"Sean Dockery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Hello, >> >> We recently came upon an issue in migrating our web application from >> Tomcat 4.1.x to SAP Web AS 6.4 SP7. >> >> Here is an example of the offending code (which involves indexed beans >> managed by a Struts ActionForm): >> >> <logic:iterate ... indexId="offset"> >> Name: <html:text property="<%= "people[" + offset + "].name" %>"/> >> </logic:iterate> >> >> The quotes embedded in the property attribute's runtime expression work >> fine under Tomcat, but failed under SAP Web AS during JSP translation. >> The Web AS JSP compiler sees the quote before the word people as the >> closing delimiter for the property attribute value. >> >> We found that the following variations work in both Tomcat and SAP Web >> AS. >> >> <html:text property='<%= "people[" + offset + "].name" %>'/> >> (using apostrophes instead of quotes to delimit the attribute values) >> >> <html:text property="<%= \"people[\" + offset + \"].name\" %>"/> >> (escaping the embedded quotes) >> >> The former solution seems to be sanctioned (according to Google, anyway). >> The latter solution (though looking to be pure evil) seems to solve a >> situation where you would have both quotes and apostrophes in the same >> attribute value. >> >> Is there anything in the (current or previous) JSP specification dealing >> with quotes embedded in runtime expressions? (It is an unfortunately >> happy coincidence that Jasper supports embedded quotes; anyone else >> enjoying this behaviour should be aware that it may not be supported by >> other containers.) >> >> Thanks for your precious time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
