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A body tag without a body doesn't generate correct JSP code 

           Summary: A body tag without a body doesn't generate correct JSP
                    code
           Product: Tomcat 4
           Version: 4.0.3 Final
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Jasper
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: ddubinsky@salmonllc.com


A Taglib body tag that doesn't have a body doesn't execute properly. The 
generated servlet treats it as an empty tag and doesn't call the doAfterBody 
method. 

For example, lets say you have a tag that mimics the HTML input tag where 
sometimes the tag must be empty and sometimes it must have a body:

ex:

<custom:input type="select">
 <custom:options....>
</custom:input>

or 

<custom:input type="submit" value="click me"></custom:input>

The second example doesn't generate proper JSP code in the servlet. It only 
calls the doStartTag method and not the doAfterBody method. A work around is to 
code it like this:

<custom:input type="submit" value="click me">&nbsp;</custom:input>

or

<custom:input type="submit" value="click me"/>

The first option would be kind of strange to explain to folks using the taglib. 
The second option is nicer, but it doesn't work in other JSP environments where 
a body tag must have a body and an empty tag must be empty (Bea Weblogic in 
particular) and so the generated JSP stops being portable. Also, the syntax

<custom:input type="submit" value="click me"></custom:input>

worked fine in Tomcat 3. This is a major bug for me because I have a tool that 
generates JSP code that I will have to rework unless I can get a fix and my 
choices for what I can generate are limited to the "ugly" option:

<custom:input type="submit" value="click me">&nbsp;</custom:input>

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