Comments: pg 41 of JSP specification

This is in reference to chapter 2 of JSP specification.
The following in shown as legal
<% String joes_statement ="hi!"; %>
<X:tag value='<%="Joe said \\"" + joes_statement + "\\"."%> '/>
How is this legal? I tried only the scriptlet part
i.e
<%="Joe said \\"" + joes_statement + "\\"."%>
and Tomcat(4.1) spewed a few errors
Can anyone please explain?

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- satya

Hello!
You made a mistake by cutting just the scriptlet. It is valid when place in an '...'-Context of an attribute. Review the following code:

The page compiles. The scriptlet does not need the espaced "\", the usage in the useBean-tag does.
Hope that helped,
Stefan