[JSTL] According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute items does not accept any expressions @Digizol

[JSTL] According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute items does not accept any expressions

Article By Kamal Mettananda on March 28, 2007

Error Message: According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute items does not accept any expressions. When working on a J2EE (Java Enterprise Edition) web application with JSTL (JSP Standard Tag Library), this is a pretty common error.

Reason for this error is version incompatibility between JSP, Servlet and JSTL. Matching versions are listed below.

JSP 1.2 , Servlet 2.3 , JSTL 1.0
JSP 2.0 , Servlet 2.4 , JSTL 1.1

Check the web.xml to see whether it uses the Servlet 2.3 DTD or Servlet 2.4 Schema.

If it uses Servlet 2.3 DTD, it will have the following text.

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
.....
</web-app>

For Servlet 2.4 Schema, it will look like below.

<web-app version="2.4" 
 xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" 
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 
 http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
.....
</web-app>

When you change the versions correctly, no such errors will pop-up. Hope this will help you.

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17 Comments for "[JSTL] According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute items does not accept any expressions"

Timo on August 06, 2009 2:11 AM

Hello,

I had the same issue, and on google, your post popped up first. It did not work using your solution, but i found out the same problem appears when the old jstl Taglib url is used.
I replaced
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
with
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
which solved my problem.
karthik on October 14, 2009 3:01 PM

Hi,

Thanks, I had the same issue and it's solved by changing the Servlet version from 2.4 to 2.3
Richard on January 05, 2010 3:19 AM

Timo: I was experiencing the exact same thing, using your change solved my problem

thank you very much !
Anonymous on April 07, 2010 4:33 PM

Hello,
Thanks Timo
Benny Neugebauer on June 04, 2010 3:43 AM

Thanks @Timo. I had the same problem when using Servlet 3.0 Schema.
Anonymous on July 19, 2010 3:34 AM

Timo thank you. You are solved my problem also :)
Anonymous on September 24, 2010 10:40 AM

Thanks guys, this thread helped me ... much appreciated
jiri.vrabec on October 26, 2010 4:19 PM

Thank you so much !
Jiri
Anonymous on January 06, 2011 3:36 PM

Thanks Timo, i faced the same problem After reading this post problem was solved
Anonymous on January 12, 2011 12:55 PM

Thanks Timo, i have faced the same problem After reading your post problem was solved
Anonymous on June 06, 2011 12:17 AM

Thanks Timo, it worked for me too
luca on July 08, 2011 6:29 PM

well done! super
Anonymous on July 11, 2011 12:37 PM

Thanks Timo!
It worked for me :)
Anonymous on September 26, 2011 6:14 PM

Hi Timo, I was experiencing the exact same thing, using your change solved my problem

thank you very much !
Anonymous on October 01, 2011 7:07 AM

@ Timo
thanks
Anonymous on January 06, 2012 2:43 PM

@Timo is right!
Asshu on August 16, 2012 6:24 PM

I have the same problem...
I replaced <%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
with
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%> and with
<%@taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core_rt" prefix="c"%>.

But my problem wasn't solved.
Please someone help me.