[jira] Updated: (STR-2941) Provide access to important Struts variables and constants so they could be easily used with JSTL

["Paul Benedict (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Paul Benedict updated STR-2941:
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    Fix Version/s: Future

> Provide access to important Struts variables and constants so they could be easily used with JSTL
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>
>                 Key: STR-2941
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/struts/browse/STR-2941
>             Project: Struts 1
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core, Taglibs
>            Reporter: Michael Jouravlev
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: Future
>
>
> Struts taglib has many tags that encapsulate Struts/servlet constants/variables and expand them into plain HTML tags. As an example, take a look at <html:base> tag.
> Consider the "home.jsp" page is located in directory "pages". Let us also consider that application context is defined as "myapp". 
> An <html:base> tag specified in home.jsp page will generate something like this:
>    <base href="http://myserver:8080/myapp/pages/home.jsp">
> A suggested alternative to <html:base> tag would look like:
>    <base href="${pageroot}">
> Another example, <html:link>. 
> Instead of 
>     <html:link action="/myAction">My Action</html:link>
> one would use 
>     <a href="${contextroot}/myAction">My Action</a>
> The benefits:
> * Tag library can be simplified
> * No need to support proper HTML attributes for different tags; why Struts should care whether HTML developed by a programmer is valid or not?
> * The markup looks more like real HTML
> * HTML editing software will not choke on custom tags
> * No hidden meaning, no side effects, just plain old HTML.

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