bodycontent - JSP or tagdependent?

[Ranadhir Nag]

I am new to custom tags and face a conceptual problem.
I have nestedtags in my JSP as follows:
<user:useragevalidation id="user">
<user:NotValidAge>You are not of valid age.</user:NotValidAge>
<user:validage>Yuo are of valid age.</user:validage>
</user:useragevalidation>

Now when i define the bodycontent of outer tag(useragevalidation) as tagdependent,I see that the inner tags are not parsed at all (dostarttag/doafterbody of inner tags are not called).
However when i change the bodycontent property to JSP,the inner tags are processed for dostarttag/doafterbody etc.,without any other change in code anywhere.

What causes this difference?Why does the tagdependent property not work in this case?

[Bear Bibeault]

That's exactly what tagdependent means; that you are planning to process the tag body and the JSP engine should not.

If that's not what youwant, don't use it.