JSP spec says you can hv pageEncoding attribute multiple number of times.
And in it also says you can hv pageEncoding at the most once per file.
What does it exactly means. Here is the extract from JSP which some what ambiguous.
A translation
unit (JSP source file and any files included via the include directive) can contain more than one instance of the page directive, all the attributes will apply to the complete translation unit (i.e. page directives are position independent). An exception to this position independence is the use of the pageEncoding and contentType attributes in the determination of the page character encoding; for this purpose, they should appear at the beginning of the page. There shall be ONLY ONE occurrence of any attribute/value pair defined by this directive in a given translation unit, unless the values for the duplicate attributes are IDENTICAL for all occurrences. The import and pageEncoding attributes are exempt from this rule and can appear multiple times. Multiple uses of the import attribute are cumulative (with ordered set union semantics). The pageEncoding attribute can occur at most once per file (or a translation error will result), and applies only to the file in which it appears. Other such multiple attribute/value (re)definitions result in a fatal translation error if the values do not match.
can n e body shed light on this
thanks & regards
Pushkar S. Raste
