Given:

<fmt-rt:formatDate value='<%= new Date(102142631861L) %>'/>

Error returned during compilation phase:
Incompatible type for method. Can't convert java.util.Date to java.lang.String.


Section 9.8 of the PD spec, page 9-107. 
The type field shows that both String and java.util.Date are value input types
for the value attribute.


The patch below seems to work ok.

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Index: FormatDateTag.java
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RCS file:
/home/cvs/jakarta-taglibs/standard/src/org/apache/taglibs/standard/tag/rt/fmt/FormatDateTag.java,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -r1.7 FormatDateTag.java
--- FormatDateTag.java	9 Mar 2002 00:55:59 -0000	1.7
+++ FormatDateTag.java	6 Apr 2002 17:52:31 -0000
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
     // Accessor methods
 
     // 'value' attribute
-    public void setValue(String value) throws JspTagException {
+    public void setValue(Object value) throws JspTagException {
         this.value = value;
 	this.valueSpecified = true;
     }
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