How to repeat output of text via simple for loop in Facelets without model?

Question

How to repeat output of some content in JSF using only standard tags (ui:, h: etc) ? In other words - how to do equivalent to PHP code below in JSF ? I immediat

Answer 1

Either use instead (true, mixing JSTL with JSF is sometimes frowned upon, but this should not harm in your particular case because you seem to want to create the view "statically"; it does not depend on any dynamic variables):

xmlns:c="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"
...

    
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Or create an EL function to create a dummy array for :

package com.example.util;

public final class Functions {

    private Functions() {
        //
    }

    public static Object[] createArray(int size) {
        return new Object[size];
    }
}

which is registered in /WEB-INF/util.taglib.xml:

    http://example.com/util/functions 
    
        createArray
        com.example.util.Functions
        Object[] createArray(int)
    

and is been used as follows

xmlns:util="http://example.com/util/functions"
...

    
content

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Update: I just posted an enhancement request to add the begin and end attributes to : http://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES-2240

Update 2: I have personally implemented it for JSF 2.3 as per https://java.net/jira/browse/JAVASERVERFACES_SPEC_PUBLIC-1102 Since Mojarra 2.3-m06 you must be able to use

    
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