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Posted to taglibs-user@tomcat.apache.org by Gregory Guthrie <gu...@mum.edu> on 2003/06/07 14:18:38 UTC
Why not allow direct EL?
Why was it decided to not allow simple EL expressions in JSP itself,
without requiring it as a tag expression?
E.g.
Today is ${date.today}.
v.s. requiring a <c:out .... />
to get EL expressions.
Yes, it would require a change to JSP, or a global encompassing tag to
invoke a pre-processor(!), but it seems much more convenient, and natural.
Like Jakarta Velocity. :-) Velocity pages are certainly a lot simpler to
read/write.
Just wondering why JSP evolution didn't chose to include this direction of
feature(s).
Gregory
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Re: Why not allow direct EL?
Posted by Gregory Guthrie <gu...@mum.edu>.
At 11:02 AM 06/07/2003 -0400, Serge Knystautas wrote:
>Gregory Guthrie wrote:
>>Just wondering why JSP evolution didn't chose to include this direction
>>of feature(s).
>
>Please read the JSP 2.0 spec. That's exactly what is supported.
-- Very neat, thanks; I hadn't seen that yet. I guess I'll wait for Tomcat
5.0 release!
>Serge Knystautas
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Re: Why not allow direct EL?
Posted by Serge Knystautas <se...@lokitech.com>.
Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> Just wondering why JSP evolution didn't chose to include this direction
> of feature(s).
Please read the JSP 2.0 spec. That's exactly what is supported.
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