For a work project, I have written a simple
JSP 2.0 tag file using the JSTL to convert
code like

<hh:label for="name" label="Name"
   accessKey="N" keyClass="akey"
   required="true"/>

to

<label for="name">
 <span class="akey">N</span>ame<em>*</em>
</label>

I find the second one harder to read, and harder
to give a web designer to fill out.

Do any of you know of similar open source tag
files or tag libraries that make common HTML
tasks simpler to perform?  I would be willing
to contribute.

Yes, I know hh:label would need to change
if I wanted to support i18n.  And I'd be using
CSS to style the class and the em.