Re: TC3.3 Proposal: Refactoring org.apache.jasper.servlet

[Craig R. McClanahan]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Matthew L Daniel wrote:

> > ( BTW, my interest is more in the jsp->java convertor area, I would be
> > interested to try a more customizable generator that would use XSL
> > templates, but that depends on a modularization and refactoring that would 
> 
>     I remember back in the "old days" when the JSP spec actually contained a
> representation of JSP syntax as XML tags (<jsp:expression> and whatnot), but
> Tomcat didn't support it because (as I recall) Sun deprecated it.  I'm with
> Costin, I think that would be/was just super-cool.
> 
>     I just wanted you to know you're not alone, Costin. :-)
> 

The XML syntax for JSP pages was not required in JSP 1.1, but is now
required in JSP 1.2.

Note that this has nothing to do with what happens *inside* of Jasper --
it is only an alternative syntax that is the input to the parser.

>   -- /v\atthew

Craig