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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 10683] - some problems with JSP documents in xml syntax

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some problems with JSP documents in xml syntax

Andreas.Junghans@fh-karlsruhe.de changed:

------- Additional Comments From Andreas.Junghans@fh-karlsruhe.de 2002-07-12 08:33 -------
I've had similiar problems, and this is what I found out and did:

a) treatment of xml comments

It's not explicitly mentioned in the spec how to treat comments. I think this
is a spec bug. Also, JSP 2.0 public draft shows no signs of clearing that up.
My workaround was to split all pages in two. One of them generates all
JavaScript (in non-XML syntax) and is included from the other (in XML syntax).
Ugly, but working.

b) treatment of mixed element content when taglib elements are involved

Can't say anything about that, sorry.

c) attribute expression evaluation

This is a very disturbing spec bug IMHO. Attributes of the form "%= ... %" are
only evaluated in standard or custom actions, but _not_ in ordinary XML tags
(see sections JSP.2.13.1 and JSP.5.2.9). This means that there is *no way* to
dynamically create the value of XML tag attributes using the XML syntax!

There are mainly two workarounds:

1.) Create custom tags to replace all tags the attribute values of which must
be dynamically generated (very painful).
2.) Parse the attributes yourself (slightly less painful than 1).

In my case, I created a custom tag that can wrap around any body content and
parses the "%= ... %" syntax. Of course this leads to new problems like slower
performance, escaping issues, limited supported syntax inside "%= ... %" etc.

I've already sent a comment about this to jsp-spec-comments@eng.sun.com, but
that seemed to have been routed to /dev/null :-( Also, JSP 2.0 public draft
doesn't seem to care any more for this than 1.2. _Maybe_ you can use the new
Expression Language (EL) to generate XML attribute values, but the way it's
expressed in the spec leaves plenty of room for interpretation (sections
JSP.2.2 and JSP.2.3).

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