According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute items does not accept any expressions [duplicate]

Answer 1

You can generate HTML even by concatenating of strings. Or you may use any of text template engines like simple JMTE(Java Minimal Template Engine) or more advanced like Velocity or StringTemplate. Using another template engine you could bravely state that you don't use JSP. Although I don't see much difference between JSP and other template engines, I mean this your requirement is kind of stupid.

Even better: don't use JSP use JSF 2! )

Answer 2

You must use JSP, JSTL - is just set of custom tags and can not be used separately. As well as Expression Language. If you are not using any MVC frameworks, then you need to do some of their work by yourself. Please take a look (if you haven't yet) at following design patterns:

1. Front Controller, Command for simple application
2. Front Controller, View Helper for more complex application

UPD:

To resolve issue with EL, please try to correct JSTL uri in your JSP to:

 <%@ taglib uri='http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core' prefix='c'%>

Answer 3

Change your JSTL taglib uri to the following:

<%@taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt" %>

It works like a charm.

Answer 4

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>

Your JSTL taglib URI is wrong. The one which you've there is for legacy JSTL 1.0. Since JSTL 1.1 there's an additional /jsp path in the taglib URI, because expression language (those ${} things) has been moved from JSTL to JSP and hence taglibs of JSTL 1.0 and 1.1 are not interchangeable.

Fix it accordingly:

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>

Nothing more needs to be done, assuming that Netbeans is smart enough to autogenerate a Servlet 3.0 compatible web.xml for Tomcat 7.

See also:

• Our JSTL wiki page
• Our EL wiki page

Answer 5

Try using the prefix <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt" %> instead of <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %>

Answer 6

I faced this problem when trying to use variable in the jstl XML, I want to use the randInt in <x:out select/>:

<x:out select="$parsedXML/content/${randInt}/title"/>

Solved it by using pageContext

<%
    Random rand = new Random();
    int randInt = rand.nextInt();
    pageContext.setAttribute("randInt", randInt);
%>
<x:out select="$parsedXML/content/article[$pageScope:randInt]/title"/>