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           Summary: html:select/ options tags undocumented
           Product: Struts
           Version: 1.2.4
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows Server 2003
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: Custom Tags
        AssignedTo: dev@struts.apache.org
        ReportedBy: thomasw@powermapjdo.com


Look, I can debug stuff, if I've got a half-coherent error message,
documentation and/ or example; and I've spent three hours looking at 'docs',
examples all over the web, and trying any number of variations.

This is far too unclear.


1). I have a form bean which I mainly use by EL.
2). I have a List of Strings, which is a variable bound into the request from
the Spring model.

3). I can assign the UserReg.Country value to a separate variable, or not...
4). I can assign the CountryList to another variable, or not...

5). I'm using Spring and would like to fit into that... to the extent possible.
6). I want to generate an html 'select' combobox, on the spec'd UserReg.Country
value, for the spec'd CountryList variable.
7). I spend hours reading the 'docs' and searching for examples, with the
following results:

8). I get all kinds of absolutely non-helpful error messages.
9). Docs are spectacularly obtuse and completely lacking in examples.
10). Particularly of the different 'name'/ 'property'/ 'collection' modalities.

11). I want to get the List, not from a form bean, not as a property of
something, but as a standalone variable.
12). I want to display and select first-class Strings contained in the
collection. No further properties beyond that.

13). I want a coherent doc, including some three-line examples, which shows this.
14). I want a hyperlink to the standard Bean name= property= referencing system.
15). I want to the doc to tell me what TLD I should be referencing in my .jsp.

16). I want the Struts-EL doc (say for html-el) to tell me what TLD I need for
that; whether the same, or different.
17). I want the Struts-EL doc to say whether it replaces the 'name= property='
system or not; and if so, what key it replaces it with.


18). Jesus Christ, what a waste of time.


Cheers,
Thomas

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