Xtags tag in html:link problem ...

[Daniel Platon]

Hello all...

I don't know if this is the correct title for the topic , but here's the problem.
I have a dynamic menu in my app. The menu definition is read from a xml file using xtags library. I use <html:link action="..." > to navigate.
The code looks something like:

<html:link action="<xtags:valueOf select="url/text()"/>" styleClass="navlink">
<xtags:valueOf select="name/text()"/>
</html:link>

The error I get is

JspTranslate: Attribute url has no value.

which means that the quotes in the "action" attribute mess up. Is there any way I can fix this ?!

Thanks a lot.
[ October 10, 2005: Message edited by: Daniel Platon ]

[alan do]

one set of tag must use double quote while the other must use single. try the single quotes for your xtags and place that inside html:link's action attribute.

[Daniel Platon]

Thanks a lot. It compiles now but it still doesn't work. When I put it like this:

<html:link action="<xtags:valueOf select='url/text()'/>" styleClass="navlink">

it says

Error 404: Invalid path /<xtags:valueOf select='url/text()'/> was requested

meaning that he's not able to interpret the xtags tag.

When I put it like this

<html:link action='<xtags:valueOf select="url/text()"/>' styleClass="navlink">

it displays funny and still isn't able to interpret the tag.

I have finally tried without the qoutes on the action tag but it raises a compilation errors.

Thanks a lot.

[alan do]

tough one buddy. struts-html generally evaluates values passed into the tags as strings. some tag attributes accept scriptlets, but others you cannot. it's even worse in your case.

the only way i can think of that may let this work is to see if xtags can set a value to a variable and place the variable into the request or page scope and use html_el:link (that is the expression language library - http://struts.apache.org/faqs/struts-el.html) to access it. ex. <html_el:link action="${requestScope.xActionName}" .../>