Looks good to me. Of course, you've only given us two lines to look at ... but oh well. Maybe you're using a different version of
JSP that doesn't allow you to put expressions inside tags (like JSP documents in JSP 2.0).
Nathaniel Stodard<br />SCJP, SCJD, SCWCD, SCBCD, SCDJWS, ICAD, ICSD, ICED