Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages™

14.6. Manipulating the Tag Body

The csajsp:prime element (Section 14.3) ignored any body content, the csajsp:heading element (Section 14.4) used body content, and the csajsp:debug element (Section 14.5) ignored or used it depending on a request time parameter. The common thread among these elements is that the tag body was never modified; it was either ignored or included verbatim (after JSP translation). This section shows you how to process the tag body.

The Tag Handler Class

Up to this point, all of the tag handlers have extended the TagSupport class. This is a good standard starting point, as it implements the required Tag interface and performs a number of useful setup operations like storing the PageContext reference in the pageContext ...