JSP whitespace

Question

Hello,
Would anyone happen to know of a clean way to disable whitespace output in JSP tags? The problem I am facing is that if I indent my JSPs properly, they will output an unacceptable amount of whitespace. I can split my tags on several lines:
<c:out value="${SomeBean.someNestedBean.reallyDeepNestedBean.funkyIndexedProperty[indexCalculatedWithComplexELExpression].label}"/>
but this will make the JSP hard to read. I could put line breaks inside JSP comments like this:
<c:forEach items="${stuff}" var="stuffItem"><%--
--%><c:choose><%--
--%> <c:when test="${someCondition}"><%--
--%> <c:out value="${stuffItem.this}"/><%--
--%> </c:when><%--
--%> <c:otherwise><%--
--%> <c:out value="${stuffItem.that}"/><%--
--%> </c:otherwise><%--
--%></c:choose><%--
--%>
</c:forEach>
But this seems like a kludgy solution. Would migrating to XML syntax help?

Answer 1

No, using XML won't help. There's no real way to
clean it up, however, if you are using HTML, and not
using PRE tags, then I'm not sure why there's a
problem. It shouldn't matter what the source is, the
HTML page will still display properly.It is a problem when the document contains more whitespace than actual characters. It is also a problem when I want my JSPs to output valid XHTML (or other XML) documents and the taglib declarations and other directives are at the beginning of the file.