Currenty I have a web project with JSF 1.2 and Facelets running in tomcat 6.0.18.0. I decided to upgrade the servlet container, thus i deployed in tomcat 7 and all seemed ok
Add this line in catalina.properties ([tomcat folder]/conf), and it should fix the issue.
org.apache.el.parser.SKIP_IDENTIFIER_CHECK=true
However, you should not use the reserved words.