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From: "Eric Fesler" <eric.fesler@hubmethods.com>
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Subject: RE: custom tag as attribute of another custom tag
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 17:00:45 +0200
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I had the same problem.

That's why I wrote a new link tag. This tag allows to define the parameters
using nested tags.

You can refer to my last posting in the thread <Multiple request parameter
for the html:link tag> if you want some more information.


Eric

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Brennan.OShea@alltel.com [mailto:Brennan.OShea@alltel.com]
> Envoy� : lundi 2 juillet 2001 16:08
> � : struts-dev@jakarta.apache.org
> Objet : custom tag as attribute of another custom tag
>
>
> Can someone tell me if it is possible to have a custom tag as an
> ATTRIBUTE of another custom tag?  I have been unable to find the answer
> to this question.  I am trying to use a <bean:write/> within the "href"
> attribute of <html:link/> in order to dynamically get the value of
> "Param3" which is in bean "ampp".  See below:
>
> <html:link href="ui.do?Param1=123&Param2=N&Param3=<bean:write
> name="ampp" property="AMTRSD00.trDept"/>">
> 	<bean:message key="myLinkText"/>
> </html:link>
>
> The compile error I get is:
>
> "javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: You must specify a name attribute if
> the property attribute is present"
>
> It seems to me that this would be an fairly common requirement of custom
> tags.  I could modify the <html:link/> tag to always evaluate the "href"
> attribute to see if the <bean:write/> tag is present and if so retrieve
> that value -- but that doesn't sound very clean.  I am trying to use
> custom tags as much as possible and Java scriptlets as little as
> possible.  I could use the standard HTML <a/> instead of <html:link/> or
> else continue to use <html:link/> and retrieve the value with Java
> scriptlet -- neither of which is ideal.
>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Brennan O'Shea
>
>
>