JSP tag that forces JSP reprocessing

[wac]

I need to write a JSP tag which either calls other tags or emits a string (like &quot;<tag:stuff blah='bla' />) which can be reprocessed by the JSP engine. I.e. I want to be able to force the JSP engine to reprocess the output.
This would allow me to write building block tags and construct more complex tags that use the building blocks. Is this possible???

 

[palbano]

sounds like ur describing the JSP tag library?

http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/tutorial/TagLibrariesTOC.html

-pete

 

[wac]

Not simply that.

For example, if I have a JSP tag mytag1 which I want to use to generate the same HTML as mytag2 and some other stuff in addition, I'd like this...
<tag1:mytag1 />

to emit (using its pageContext.getOut())

<tag2:mytag2 />
...plus other html....


The problem is that the <tag2:mytag2> is not reevaluated by the JSP engine. It is processed by the browser directly, which ignores it cause its not HTML.