Bug 8073

Summary:	If select attribute of <x:forEach> action is empty, an Exception is improperly thrown.
Product:	Taglibs	Reporter:	Ryan Lubke <Ryan.Lubke>
Component:	Standard Taglib	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Ryan Lubke 2002-04-14 17:46:11 UTC

Section 12.6, page12-153, 'Null & Error Handling':

If 'select' is empty, it is treated as an empty nodeset, i.e., no iteration
is performed.

Resulting stacktrace:

javax.servlet.jsp.JspTagException: com.werken.saxpath.XPathSyntaxException: 0:
Unexpected ''
	at org.apache.taglibs.standard.tag.common.xml.ForEachTag.prepare(ForEachTag.java:92)
	at javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.core.LoopTagSupport.doStartTag(LoopTagSupport.java:258)

Comment 1 Shawn Bayern 2002-04-17 21:21:04 UTC

Waiting for spec clarification.

Comment 2 Shawn Bayern 2002-04-18 23:18:57 UTC

To be changed in the spec.