2.4

Quoting and Escape Conventions

The following quoting conventions apply to JSP pages. Anything else is not processed.

Quoting in Scripting Elements

A literal %> is quoted by %\>

Quoting in Template Text

n

A literal <% is quoted by <\%

Quoting in Attributes

A ` is quoted as \'

A   is quoted as \ 

A \ is quoted as \\

A %> is quoted as %\>

A <% is quoted as <\%

XML Representation

The quoting conventions are different to those of XML. Chapter 7 describes the details of the 

transformation.

2.5

Overview of Semantics

A JSP page describes how to create a 

response

 object from a 

request

 object for a given 

protocol, possibly creating and/or using some other objects. A JSP page is executed by a JSP 

container; requests sent to a JSP page are delivered by the JSP container to some JSP

 page 

implementation

 instance that is a subclass of Servlet (see Chapter 3).

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