Simple Velocity question

Hi!

I'm trying to build a navigation menu for my little JPublish (2.0.2)
playground using a Velocity foreach loop. For that I need pairs of a
'link' and its 'title'. (I'm quite clueless being not a programmer, but
I guess this is pretty standard.)

So I took this straight from the Velocity user guide
(http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/user-guide.html#Set):

#set( $monkey.Map = {"banana" : "good", "roast beef" : "bad"})

But...:

org.jpublish.TemplateMergeException: Lexical error:
org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line
69, column 21.  Encountered: "{" (123), after : ""

I've tried all kinds of variations and typings, but to no avail. What's
wrong here?

I'm sorry if you feel this is a Velocity question I should ask
elsewhere. 

Thanks a lot,
 - Thomas


PS: The JPublish site is down for weeks, it seems to me. Is everything
ok?


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