Tags with Attributes

Attributes are used to pass information into a custom tag to configure the behavior of the tag. Tag attributes are like XML or HTML attributes and are name/value pairs of data. The values must be quoted with single or double quotes.

A simple example is a tag that looks up a JNDI name passed in as a parameter. Listing 14.4 shows how such a tag could be used.

Listing 14.4. Full Text of lookup.jsp
1: <%@ taglib uri="/demo" prefix="demo" %>
2: <HTML>
3: <HEAD>
4: <TITLE>Tag Library Lookup Demo</TITLE>
5: <BODY>
6:   <demo:lookup name="jdbc/Agency"/>
7: </BODY>
8: </HTML>

The JSP specification allows attributes to have values that can include Java expressions. If the lookup name had been passed in as a request parameter called ...

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