I've logged an issue [1] to track this.
[1]
https://javaserverfaces.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=917
webtier_at_javadesktop.org wrote:
> While setPropertyActionListener works fine in jsp mode, it doesn't really work in XHTML (facelets) mode.
>
> <h:inputText value="#{name.fname}" id="fname"/>
>
> <h:commandButton value="Change with set listeners">
> <f:setPropertyActionListener target="#{name.fname}" value="Jialiang"/>
> </h:commandButton>
>
> When I press the command button, the value I should get in the input text box is "Jialiang". However, what I got is some sort of string expression:
>
> /index.xhtml @26,75 value="Jialiang": ValueExpression[Jialiang]
>
> In JSP mode, I can get the value correctly; this only happens in XHTML mode.
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