"Patrick J. McNerthney" wrote:
> Did I submit this question to the right place?
This does turn out to be a bug in Tomcat. I'm not sure it can get
addressed
in a 3.2 timeframe, but will definitely be addressed in a subsequent
version.
Craig McClanahan
>
> "Patrick J. McNerthney" wrote:
> >
> > When I create a custom tag with a name that contains a dash, such as
> > "Foo-Bar", Jasper uses this name in the generation of the variable name
> > used to hold the instance of this tag. Since the dash is not a valid
> > java variable character, this code does not compile under javac. Other
> > JSP compilers, such as WebLogic do handle tag names with dashes fine.
> >
> > The JavaServer Pages Specification, Version 1.1 states in section 5.3.5
> > that the name element's PCDATA is comprised of NMTOKEN (name token),
> > which according to the XML specification includes the dash.
> >
> > Is this a problem with Jasper or does the JSP specification in fact
> > preclude the use of dashes in the name element PCDATA?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Pat McNerthney
> > Icicle Software, Inc.
> >
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