benn wrote:
> Hello,
>
>           I am sucessfully using a display table in a jsp file as follows:
>   
[snip]
>   However I have pulled this into a separate tag file as this table 
> appears in lots of places throughout my app.
>
> <%@ include file="../jsp/common/include.jsp"%>
>
> <%@ attribute name="itemlist" required="true" type="java.util.List"%>
> <%@ attribute name="title" required="true" type="java.lang.String"%>
>
> ${itemlist}
> <h3>${title}</h3>
> <display:table name="itemlist" export="true" requestURI=""
>     decorator="de.mpicbg.db.endotrack.displaydecorators.WorkItemDecorator">
>   
[snip]
>     However this doesn't show anything in my generated file for the 
> table, it simply shows the data for an empty list - it is like 
> displaytag is failing to read the variable from the attribute.  Has 
> anyone successfully used displaytag in a tag file?
>   

I think your problem may be one of scope. DisplayTag only looks in the 
requestScope by default unlike the EL ${ } construct which will search 
all scopes. Does a tag attribute get placed in pageScope? Why not try 
name="pageScope.itemlist" and see if that helps?

<http://displaytag.sourceforge.net/11/tut_sources.html>

Ed!

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