how to quote nested tags

[Felix von Delius <fv...@t-online.de>]

A collegue asked me a question that I can't answer. Maybe someone
reading this list can help. The question is how to nest tags in a way
that they expand to their attribute values.

An example: assume I have the following tags:

<my:foo a='value' />
<my:bar b='other' />
<my:baz c='stuff' />

When I want to nest two of this tags, I can use alternating single and
double-quotes like this. This works and the expansion of the tags is
no problem:

<my:foo a='<my:bar b="stuff"/>' />
                     ^-----^
          ^-------------------^


But what when I want to nest the tags deeper, alternating single-
and double quotes will not work, because the 2nd single quote will end
the 1st one and the taglib processor recognized this wrong structure:

<my:foo a='<my:bar b="<my:baz c='stuff' />" />' />
          ^---------------------^     ^-------^

My question now is: Is there a "right way" to do this? (Maybe using
&quot; or some form of temporary variable to hold an immediate value)

Thanks for Your help!

-Felix

Re: how to quote nested tags

[Oleg V Alexeev <go...@penza.net>]

Hello Felix,

Thursday, June 21, 2001, 2:03:49 PM, you wrote:

FvD> <my:foo a='<my:bar b="stuff"/>' />
FvD>                      ^-----^
FvD>           ^-------------------^

You can use in tag attributes only run time expressions - not another
tag.

-- 
Best regards,
 Oleg                            mailto:gonza@penza.net