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Added by Piero Sartini, last edited by Piero Sartini on Apr 07, 2007

With JSP2.1 the "#" character is used in the JSP EL. OGNL does use this escape character as well.
To get around this there is the possibility to disable JSP EL in web.xml:

<jsp-config>
  <jsp-property-group>
    <url-pattern>*.jspx</url-pattern>
    <el-ignored>true</el-ignored>
  </jsp-property-group>
</jsp-config>    

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