Thymeleaf Fragments vs JSP custom tags

Fragment definition

<!-- Thymeleaf fragment declaration -->
<!-- in fragments/form-row.html -->

<div class="row" layout:fragment="form-row(label,id)"
     xmlns:layout="http://www.ultraq.net.nz/thymeleaf/layout"
     xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org">  
     <!-- You cannot import the dialect namespaces somehow, you have to define all of these in every file -->

    <div class="large-12 columns">
        <label th:for="${id}"><span th:text="${label}">Label</span>
            <div layout:fragment="content"></div>
        </label>
    </div>
</div>


<!-- JSP Custom Tag Declaration -->
<!-- In fragments/form-row.tag -->
<!-- You can include a file containing all taglib declarations -->
<%@include file="../jsp/_include/taglibs.jsp"%>

<%@ attribute name="label" %>
<%@ attribute name="id"%>

<div class="row">  
    <div class="large-12 columns">
        <label for="${id}"><c:out value="${label}"/> <!-- No extra span tag needed -->
            <jsp:doBody/>
        </label>
    </div>
</div>

Fragment usage

<!-- Thymeleaf fragment usage -->
<!-- Again need to import all namespaces -->
<div xmlns:layout="http://www.ultraq.net.nz/thymeleaf/layout"
     xmlns:th="http://www.thymeleaf.org">
    
    <!-- Path to fragment is hard-coded in every usage -->
    <!-- Need to specify th:remove to make sure the tag is actually replaced -->
    <div layout:include="fragments/form-row :: form-row('foo', 'bar')" th:remove="tag"> 
        <div layout:fragment="content"> <!-- Need to wrap the actual content here -->
            <input name="foo" id="bar" type="text"/>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

<!-- This is hardly an improvement over just duplicating the fragment code -->

<!-- JSP Fragment usage -->
<%@include file="../jsp/_include/taglibs.jsp"%>
<!-- You can include a file containing all taglib declarations -->

<my:form-row name="foo" id="bar">
  <input name="foo" id="bar" type="text"/>
</my:form-row>

<!-- A lot less noise, much more readable -->