JSTL toupper

Question

I have the following code in a JSP that generates my pages.
I cannot use functions... anyone know of another way to convert options.code and devaule to uppercase inside the c:when?
<c:forEach items="${renderDataElmnt.options}" var="option">
                    <c:if test="${not option.deleted}">
                    <c:choose>
                     <!--  Need to do a caseinsensitive compare here????-->
                         <c:when test="${option.code == devalue}">
                              <c:set var="anyOptnSelected" value="true" />
                              <option selected value="<c:out value='${option.code}'/>"><c:out
                                   value='${option.label}' /></option>
                         </c:when>
                         <c:otherwise>
                              <option value="<c:out value='${option.code}'/>"><c:out
                                   value='${option.label}' /></option>
                         </c:otherwise>
                    </c:choose>
                    </c:if>
               </c:forEach>

Answer 1

That's a possiblity... This JSP is used to generate hundreds of screens... it is only on 18 of them (specific type of screen) that is is having this problem... I have to make sure it isn't going to cause problems else where.... but deValue gets set in a scriplet so I can convert that to upper without a problem.. and the getOptions of course can be converted in the getter.
Thanks.. I don't see any other way then what you said.