/** Prepares the iterator. */ public void prepare() throws JspTagException { // jsp/1ce6 if (_items != null && _items.contains("#{")) { ELContext elContext = pageContext.getELContext(); deferredExpression = JspUtil.createValueExpression(elContext, String.class, _items); _items = (String) deferredExpression.getValue(elContext); } _iterator = new TokenIterator(_items, _delims); }