JSTL and HTML White space

[newakdev]

Need some help...

I have a JSP page with JSTL code. The JSTL formatting is being carried over to the html page and causing performance issues because of the size.

sample jstl code...

for each loop
if statement

more if statements

end loop

The loop can be processed 1 to 150 times. The page that is displayed grows very large because of the white space produced in the HTML.

Any ideas on how the suppress the white space? I'm digging into server compile options now just wondered if I could do anything in the jsp page.

[FON]

Can u find anything useful in java src code of JSP after it is compiled
on servlet container.

On Tomcat servlet container there is folder
...work\Catalina\projcet_name\.....
and there are src files of JSP,
if you use other you will find it easily.

Inside there are many lines like:

out.write("    <h1>JSP 2.0 Expression Language - Basic Arithmetic</h1>\n");
out.write("    <hr>\n");
out.write("    This example illustrates basic Expression Language arithmetic.\n");
out.write("    Addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (*), division (/ or div), \n");

There you can search for problematic html tags .

Can this help?

[newakdev]

FON, Thanks for the reply.

I was able to determine it was a setting in the application server setup. I had to enable the JSP Compiler option "useCDataTrim".

[FON]

great!

which app server is that by way

[newakdev]

It is a Websphere Commerce App running on Websphere Application Server