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Webwork uses a standard naming context to evaluate OGNL expressions. The top level object dealing with OGNL is a map (usually referred as a context map). OGNL has a concept of a root object (in webwork terms, this is the OGNLValueStack). Along with the root, other objects are placed in the context map (referred as in the context) including your session/application/request/attr maps. These objects have nothing to do with the root, they just exist along side it in the context map. So, to access these objects, the # is used telling ognl not to look in the root object, but within the rest of the context

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                     |--request
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                     |--application
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       context map---|--OgnlValueStack(root)
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                     |--session
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                     |--attr
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                     |--parameters

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<webwork:select label="'lebal'" name="'nmae'name" list="{'name1','name2'}" />

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<webwork:select label="'lebal'" name="'nmae'name" list="#{'foo':'foovalue', 'bar':'barvalue'}" />

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