Hi all, Although I guess it would be technically possible (yet weird and most likely very complicated) to support EL for the var attribute, it wouldn't make much sense as 'var' is used as a variable name for iteration purpose. In much senses, it's like a really short lived managed bean and we don't support dynamic managed bean names either. I wonder how the EL would have to look like to support such feature (scope[myBean.varName].attribute?) and what kinf od use case it would solve. Regards, ~ Simon ________________________________ From: JSR 314 Open Mailing list on behalf of Ed Burns Sent: Fri 3/6/2009 10:55 AM To: JSR-314-OPEN(a)JCP.ORG Subject: [jsr-314-open] Why do we disallow EL for h:dataTable "var" attribute? Someone on JSR-314-COMMENTS asked this question and I don't recall the answer, but I trust there's a good one since it's baked into the spec. Any ideas? Ed -- | ed.burns(a)sun.com | office: 408 884 9519 OR x31640 | homepage: | http://ridingthecrest.com/