Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Please provide a way to add white space between strings during concatenation in JSTL.

I tried the following.
eg:
<c:set var="even_odd" value="odd">
<c:out value="first ${even_odd}"/>

I want the output string as "first odd ".

Moreover i am using the above value for generating the class attribute of a row of a table like

<tr class=<c:out value="first ${even_odd}"/>>

while printing the value of <c:out value="first ${even_odd}"/> in the page,i am getting correctly as i needed as "first odd".

But while taking the code of the page while rendering by the browser, it is showing like

<tr class="first" odd="">

I think the white space is the problem.

Please provide any solution or hint.