How to produce whitespace after trimDirectiveWhitespaces="true"?

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After setting <%@page trimDirectiveWhitespaces="true"%>, all the whitespace is stripped, even the space between ${a} ${b}.

How can I produce some whitespace in my JSP? Like the space between ${a} ${b} ?

==EDIT==

I know why the spaces are stripped, and I know that the official 'solution' is to "wrap the desired spaces in <jsp:text>", but that impacts readability of my code. Would like to know if there is a more concise solution.

Possible duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/q/2935093/413020 and valid answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2935380/413020. In summary: use `` — Alberto, Apr 20 '15 at 16:03
[THE DOCTOR](http://stackoverflow.com/users/70015/the-doctor)'s answer also works for me — Alberto, Apr 20 '15 at 16:10

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 13 '14 at 22:24

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You could get around this by using the JSTL c:out tag: <c:out value="${a} ${b}" />

answered Jan 13 '14 at 22:24

THE DOCTOR

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 21 '15 at 09:30

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For now I'm using this code to print out a space: ${' '}

Like this: ${a} ${' '} ${b}

answered Apr 21 '15 at 09:30

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How to produce whitespace after trimDirectiveWhitespaces="true"?

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