Choose the right answer

[Sreeraj G Harilal]

Assuming the appropriate taglib directives, which are valid examples of custom tag usage?

A. <foo:bar/>
B. <my:tag></my:tag>
C. <mytag value="x" />
D. <c ut value="x" />
E. <jsp:setProperty name="a" property="b" value="c" />

[Gowher Naik]

A,B,D are correct
C is incorrect because there is no prefix.
E is also incorrect because it is JSP standard action.

[Sreeraj G Harilal]

I think option D is incorrect because the question asking "which are valid examples of custom tag.

<c ut value="x"> is not a custom tag. It's a standard tag.

I am right?

[Ali Gohar]

I don't think so, its not mentioned in the question that prefix "c" points to which taglib. i can make my own tag as "out"

So i think D is correct
[ December 01, 2006: Message edited by: Ali Gohar ]

[Renu Radhika]

No even if its not developed by you its not a standard action.All standard actions start with <jsp:....But c ut is a custom tag developed by java for convenience

[Renu Radhika]

sorry developed by sun :-)

[Sreeraj G Harilal]

Thanks all

[Bryan Basham]

Hi all,

Just for clarification: There are only two types of dynamic tags: standard tags and custom tags. Standard tags are "built-in" and do not require a taglib directive to use them. Custom tags do require a taglib. JSTL is a set of custom tags; actually a set of four custom tag libraries (core, I18N, SQL, and XML).

And of course, there are also static tags. HTML falls into this category, but if you are creating XML documents, then XML tags are also static. Note that it can get confusing to look at an "JSP document" (which must be in pure XML syntax) with XML namespaces and distinguish between static XML tags with namespaces and dynamic tags (which also use namespace prefixes).

HTH,
Bryan
[ December 03, 2006: Message edited by: Bryan Basham ]