[fljmayer]

I am using MyEclipse 3.8Beta-1 on Ecplise 3.0RC3.
I get the following syntax error when using a String constant in a script expression <%= %>:
expected %>”

Here is an example:
<bean:message key=”<%=”prompt.case.” + caseRecordType.getKey()%>”/>

As far as I know my code is correct, it executes without problems in Tomcat 4.1. So I assume that there is a parsing problem with MyEclipse.

[Riyad Kalla]

Per the JSP spec, you need to escape your quotes, or I think you can use single quotes.

[fljmayer]

I cannot find any restriction like in the JSP 2.0 specification. Where did you see that?

Also this kind of restriction doesn’t make sense to me, all it should care about is the opening <%= and the closing %>. Below is how the specification defines this in section JSP.9.4.3, and my code conforms to that.

Original            Equivalent Text
<%= expression %>   out.print(expression)

[support-michael]

I cannot find any restriction like in the JSP 2.0 specification. Where did you see that?

See section 1.6 of the JSP2 Spec, subsection titled “Quoting in Attributes”. Following is an applicable example from this section, see page 1-35.

The following line shows an illegal attribute values.
<mytags:tag value=”<%= “hi!” %>” />

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