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January 18, 2008 at 9:16 am #280820 Reply

Nemi

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I am getting a validation error when using jstl tags in my jsp page. It says that the “missing end tag c:forEach” and “missing end tag c:if”. These tags are closed, but the table tag inside them is split between the inside and outside of the tag and this may be causing the problem. Here is my jsp:

<%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="un" uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/unstandard-1.0" %>
<un:useConstants var="const" className="CustomerStatementDTO"/>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
  <head>
    
    <c:choose>    
        <c:when test='${fn:startsWith(statement.batchId, "Q")}'>
            <title>Royalty Statement - ${statement.quarterId}</title>
        </c:when>
        <c:otherwise>
            <title>Monthly Sales History - ${statement.batchId}</title>        
        </c:otherwise>
    </c:choose>
    
    <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache"/>
    <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" />
    <meta http-equiv="expires" content="0"/>    

    <style type="text/css">
        body {
            background-color: #fff;
            font: normal small courier, mono-spaced;
        }
        a:link, a:active, a:visited, a:hover { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; }
        
    </style>

    <!--
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">
    -->

  </head>
  
  <body>
 <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
     <tr>
          <td>
          </td>
          <td>
              
          </td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
          <td>
          </td>
          <td align="right">
             <font face="Courier New" size="4"><b>
             
    <c:choose>    
        <c:when test='${fn:startsWith(statement.batchId, "Q")}'>
           Royalty Statement
        </c:when>
        <c:otherwise>
             Monthly Sales History 
        </c:otherwise>
    </c:choose>
                                      </b>
                         </font>
          </td>
     </tr>  </table>  <br />  <br />
     
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
     <tr>          <td>               
    ${statement.customer.firstName} ${statement.customer.MI} ${statement.customer.lastName}
<br />
              
    ${statement.customer.address}
<br />
              
    ${statement.customer.city} ${statement.customer.state} ${statement.customer.zip}
<br />
              
    ${statement.customer.countryCode}

         </td>
         <td>
              
         </td>
         <td width="400">
             <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
                 <tr>
                     <td>
     <a href="#" onmouseover="return escape('The date on which this statement was posted.')" onclick=" return false">Statement Date:</a>
                     </td>
                     <td>
     <fmt:formatDate value="${statement.statementDate}"/>

                     </td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td>
                         <a href="#" onmouseover="return escape('The Statement period reported for this statement.')" onclick=" return false">Period:</a>
                     </td>
                     <td>
     <fmt:formatDate value="${statement.periodStart}"/> - <fmt:formatDate value="${statement.periodEnd}"/>
                     </td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td>
                         <a href="#" onmouseover="return escape('This is the id that uses to identify each author.')" onclick=" return false">iUniverse ID:</a>
                     </td>
                     <td>
    ${statement.customer.idNumber}
                     </td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td>
                          <a href="#" onmouseover="return escape('This is the e-mail address that has on file for each author.')" onclick=" return false">Email Login:</a>
                     </td>
                     <td>
    ${statement.customer.emailId}
                     </td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td>
                          
                     </td>
                     <td>
                          
                     </td>
                 </tr>
             </table>
         </td>
     </tr>
 </table>


<c:forEach items="${statement.titles}" var="title" varStatus="status" >
<c:if test="${status.count == 1}" >
<br/>
<table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%>
     <tr>
         <td>
             <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=100%>
                 <tr>
                     <td colspan=6 width=100% >
                       <a href=# onmouseover="return escape('Summary of Your Book Sales')" onclick="return false"><b> Summary of Your Book Sales</b></a>
                     </td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td colspan=6 width=100% >
                       <b> </b>
                     </td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <td width=20% >
                       <a href=# onmouseover="return escape('Primary Author Name')" onclick=" return false"><b> Author</b></a>
                     </td>
                     <td width=40%>
                       <a href=# onmouseover="return escape('Title')" onclick=" return false"><b> Title</b></a>
                     </td>
                     <td width=10% align=right>
                       <a href=# onmouseover="return escape('This Month Royalty.')" onclick=" return false"><b> Royalty</b></a>
                     </td>
                     <td width=10% align=right>
                       <a href=# onmouseover="return escape('This Month Sales.')" onclick=" return false"><b> MTD Qty</b></a>
                     </td>
                     <td width=10% align=right>
                       <a href=# onmouseover="return escape('This Year Sales')" onclick=" return false"><b> YTD Qty</b></a>
                     </td>
                     <td width=10% align=right>
                       <a href=# onmouseover="return escape('Life times Sales(from 2002).')" onclick=" return false"><b> LTD Qty</b></a>
                     </td></tr>
</c:if>
<c:choose>
    <c:when test="${status.count % 2 == 0}">
        <c:set var="bgColor" value="#CCCCCC"/>
    </c:when>
    <c:otherwise>
        <c:set var="bgColor" value=""/>
    </c:otherwise>
</c:choose>

<tr bgcolor="${bgColor}">
    <td align=left> 
        ${title.authorName}</td>
    <td align=left> 
        ${title.title}</td>
    <td align=right>
        <fmt:formatNumber value="${title.royaltyTotal}" type="currency"/>
    </td> 
    <td align=right>
        ${title.mtd}
    </td>
    <td align=right>
        ${title.ytd}
    </td>
    <td align=right>
        ${title.ltd}
    </td></tr>

</c:forEach>
                        <tr>
                                <td align=left>                                      <b>Total</b>
                                 </td>                                  <td align=left>
                                                                         </td>
                                 <td align=right>                                       <b>
 <fmt:formatNumber value="${statement.royaltyTotalForAllTitles}" type="currency"/></b>
                                 </td>                                  <td align=right>
                                                                        </td>
                                 <td align=right>                                   
                                 </td>                                  <td align=right>
                                                                        </td>                              </tr>
</table>
    </td></tr></table>


  </body>
</html>

January 21, 2008 at 8:21 am #280856 Reply

Loyal Water

Member

Can you go to MyEclipse > Installation Summary > Installation Details and paste the information here for me.

October 16, 2008 at 2:36 am #290006 Reply

pierre.henry

Member

Hello,

I have exactly the same problem, and I would like to know if it there is any news about this issue ?

Currently my whole project is without validation error except 3-4 errors of that type. But in the package explorer view, unless you unfold everything until the jsp file level, the whole webroot dir always appear red. Not very practical to detect real errors…

The structure is always the same, for example :


<c:forEach items="${displayObject.newsItems}" var="item">
    <c:choose>
        <c:when test="${item.publishedNow}" >
            <div class="newsItemTitleBar published">
        </c:when>
        <c:otherwise  >
            <div class="newsItemTitleBar unpublished">
        </c:otherwise>
    </c:choose>
rest of the content of the div....

</div>
</c:forEach>

The c:forEach opening tag is flagged with “missing end tag”.

Another case is where I order items in 4 columns in a table :


<c:forEach items="${roles}" var="role" varStatus="status"> 
                    <c:if test="${status.count % 4 == 1}" >
                        <tr>
                    </c:if>
                        <td width="25%">
                            <html:multibox property="selectedRoles" disabled="false">
                                <bean:define id="hiddenValue" name="role" property="id" />
                                <bean:define id="dscr" name="role" property="name" />
                                <bean:write name="hiddenValue" />
                            </html:multibox>
                            <bean:write name="dscr" />
                        </td>
                    <c:if test="${status.count % 4 == 0 or status.last}" >
                        </tr>
                    </c:if>
                </c:forEach>

Here the closing line tag </tr> is flagged with “no start tag”

It would be nice to have this kind of problems fixed, or to have the possibility to mark them to be ignored…

Regards,

October 16, 2008 at 2:39 am #290007 Reply

pierre.henry

Member

Sorry I forgot : I have just installed ME 6.5.1 GA before posting the previous post. So my installation details are :

*** Date:
Thursday, October 16, 2008 9:36:43 AM CEST

** System properties:
OS=WindowsXP
OS version=5.1
Java version=1.5.0_11

*** MyEclipse details:
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench
Version: 6.5.1 GA
Build id: 6.5.1-GA-20080715

*** Eclipse details:
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench

Version: 6.5.1 GA
Build id: 6.5.1-GA-20080715

Eclipse Platform

Version: 3.3.3.r33x_r20080129-_19UEl7Ezk_gXF1kouft
Build id: M20080221-1800

Eclipse RCP

Version: 3.3.3.r33x_r20080129-8y8eE9UEUWI6qujeED0xT7bc
Build id: M20080221-1800

Eclipse Java Development Tools

Version: 3.3.2.r33x_r20080129-7o7jE7_EDhYDiyVEnjb1pFd7ZGD7
Build id: M20080221-1800

Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment

Version: 3.3.3.r33x_r20080129-7N7M5DQVIA_6oJsEFkEL
Build id: M20080221-1800

Eclipse Project SDK

Version: 3.3.3.r33x_r20080129-7M7J7LB-u3aphGW6o3_VmiVfGXWO
Build id: M20080221-1800

Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework

Version: 3.3.2.v20080129
Build id: 20080221-1602

Eclipse startup command=-os
win32
-ws
win32
-arch
x86
-showsplash
-launcher
D:\java\MyEclipse6.5.1\eclipse\eclipse.exe
-name
Eclipse
–launcher.library
D:\java\MyEclipse6.5.1\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.3.R33x_v20080118\eclipse_1023.dll
-startup
D:\java\MyEclipse6.5.1\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118.jar
-exitdata
14fc_74
-clean
-vm
D:\java\MyEclipse6.5.1\jre\bin\javaw.exe

October 16, 2008 at 12:40 pm #290022 Reply

Loyal Water

Member

I just checked up with the dev team and it seems like this is a limitation of the HTML validator at this time not being jsp taglib friendly. The temporary workaround until we get that code improved is to disable it completely for the project. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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