Tag file attribute not evaluated

[Tim Storms]

I've got a problem with a tag file. When I want to show a tag attribute, it is printed out as "${subtitle}" in my browser. The EL expression has not been evaluated. This is my code:

Tag file (in WEB-INF/tags):

<%@ tag body-content="tagdependent" %>
<%@ attribute name="subtitle" required="true" %>
${subtitle}
<br />
<jsp :mrgreen: oBody />

JSP file:

<%@ taglib prefix="mine" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags" %>
...
<mine:test subtitle="Subtitle">This is the body.</mine:test>
...

Any suggestions? Thanks!

[Christophe Verré]

Which version of Servlets are you using ? Can you show the web-app tag of your web.xml ?

[Tim Storms]

I'm using the 2.4 version.

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee [url=http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"]http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"[/url]
    version="2.4">

I tried the same code on my home pc where I didn't have this problem. Can't see what's causing this here though.

[Vassili Vladimir]

Hi,

I was facing the same problem, and i used the tag directive with the isELIgnored attribute set to false, as follows and it worked :

    
<%@tag ... isELIgnored = "false" ... %>

Best of luck ...

[Tim Storms]

Yes, it works like a sharm. Thanks Vladimir!

[Vassili Vladimir]

Anytime ...

[Tiffiny Yang]

Is that works?

Mine does not.

I remeber one a mock question I did was asking tagdependent is defined body-content, then what's happening when you have scriptlet and EL express inside the body part.

the anser is Scripting won�t get translated ( no display in the browser)
EL will be treated as plain text. I've tried it. it works as explained.

[Vassili Vladimir]

Can you post the question please ...

Thank you ...

[Christophe Verré]

isELIgnored = "false"

This is wrong. From version 2.4, EL is enabled by default. You don't need to set this attribute anymore. The problem lies somewhere else.

[Vassili Vladimir]

OK where's the problem ?

I really need to know it, i have defined the web.xml exactly in the way so it can adhere the 2.4 and it still did not work till i set it manually ...

Please i need to hear from you ...

Thanks in advance ...

[Dagbj�rn Nogva]

Hi,

One explanation could be the presence of an el-ignored element in the DD.

<web-app ...>
 
  <jsp-config>
    <jsp-property-group>
      <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern>
      <el-ignored>true</el-ignored>
    </jsp-property-group>
  </jsp-config>
</web-app>

This element will turn off EL evaluation in all *.jsp files, but may be overridden by a <%@ page isELIgnored="false" %> directive in an individual JSP page.

Dagbj�rn