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[westernind]

I've never coded in Java or JSP, and I'm landed with a conversion task.

Is there any outside chance that anyone out there knows how to write JSP Documents (XML-compliant JSP code), knows how to code form input fields, and wouldn't mind answering what's probably a newbie question?


The issue is, the page has to be XML-compliant. Chevron brackets aren't allowed inside XML attributes. So I have to restructure the code.

BEFORE
<input value="<%= email%>" type="text" name="contactEmail" id="emailcontact" size="20"/>

AFTER
Based on googling, this is my best guess:

<jsp:element name="input">
     <jsp:attribute name="name">
          <c:out value="contactEmail"/>
     </jsp:attribute>
     <jsp:attribute name="value">
          <c:out value="$email"/>
     </jsp:attribute>
     <jsp:attribute name="type">
          <c:out value="text"/>
     </jsp:attribute>
     <jsp:attribute name="id">
          <c:out value="emailcontact"/>
     </jsp:attribute>
     <jsp:attribute name="size">
          <c:out value="20"/>
     </jsp:attribute>
</jsp:element>

But it's not quite right. That code successfuly produces an HTML form text input field, but it has a displayed value of $variable. Whereas I need the actual value, as typed in by the user, to be assigned to the JSP variable on submission.

Meep?


[EDITED: solved! the answer is, replace <c:out value="$email"/> with <jsp:expression>email</jsp:expression>