Thanks alot David,
very good explanation, simple and straight to the point.
Exactly what i need to know (just never thought that "the dot" is the
source of the problem)


Regards,

bdr.


-----Original Message-----
From: Karr, David [mailto:David.Karr@(protected)]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 10:02 PM
To: JSP-INTEREST@(protected)
Subject: Re: rendering element of a Map stored in applicationScope


It's a little hard to follow all your line numbers and A vs. B choices,
but I think your problem boils down to one issue:

If the "name" of a scoped variable in any scope has a period in it, you
will only find it using the form where the variable name is enclosed in
quotes.

That is, if your scoped variable name is "foo.bar", then the following
are NOT equivalent:

${applicationScope.foo.bar}
${applicationScope["foo.bar"]}

And wrt the mailing list question, the "taglibs-user" list is often
where these issues are discussed, although now with the EL moving into
JSP 2.0, this list may be seeing more of these questions.

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