Mixing c:forEach and h:outputText

Question

I'm sure this has been discussed many times, but I'm finding it hard to find a clear and up to date summary of this issue.
In Tomcat 6, using Sun JSF 1.2 RI, the following JSP code:
<c:forEach begin="0" end="10" varStatus="loopStatus">
  <c:out value="LoopStatus: ${loopStatus.index}"/>
  <h:outputText value="#{loopStatus.index}"/>
</c:forEach>Prints the index in the "c:out", but not in the "h:outputText".
In JEE 5, I should have the "unified EL", but I'm not sure if that's the key to this.
Is there any way I can get the c:out loop index value into a JSF component?

Answer 1

Yes, I've read that doc, and a couple others, but I can't interpret from that doc why the following code doesn't do what I expect:<c:forEach items="${ratingRequest.propertyList}" var="property" varStatus="loopStatus">
  <c:out value="LoopStatus: ${loopStatus.index}"/>
  <c:out value="Property ID: ${property.propertyID}"/>
  <h:outputText value="Property ID: #{property.propertyID}"/>
</c:forEach>I'm hoping to see the following:
LoopStatus: 0 Property ID: 12345 Property ID: 12345 LoopStatus: 1 Property ID: 54321 Property ID: 54321but I see this instead:
LoopStatus: 0 Property ID: 12345 Property ID: LoopStatus: 1 Property ID: 54321 Property ID: In fact, the following example from the doc seems to be similar enough to what I'm doing to make me wonder whether there's something wrong with my configuration or the JSF RI.
<c:forEach var="book" items="#{BooksBean.books}">
     <h:inputText id="quantity" value="#{book.quantity}" ... />
   </c:forEach>