Re: JSTL forEach

From:
"Daniel Pitts" <googlegroupie@coloraura.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
26 Mar 2007 16:24:35 -0700
Message-ID:
<1174951475.602297.89150@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 26, 2:01 pm, "U.O" <km_a...@hotmail.com> wrote:

I can't understand how <forEach> is supposed to work. This code iterates
once (why?) and produces only one string, "Item" (without the index number).
Why?

<jsp:root version="1.2"
    xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page"
    xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"
  >
  <jsp:output doctype-root-element="html" omit-xml-declaration="false"
    doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

doctype-system="http://www.w3c.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>
  <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" session="true"
/>
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1" />
      <title>Blah</title>
    </head>
    <body>
      <div>
        <c:forEach var="i" start="1" end="10">
           Item ${i}<br />
        </c:forEach>
      </div>
    </body>
  </html>
</jsp:root>


Have you considered using a modern version of JSPs? Say, JSP 2?

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