You cannot nest tags within tags. I'd try this:
<c:set var="displayer"><fmt:message key="displayer"/></c:set>
<menu-el:useMenuDisplayer name="${displayer}">
(where displayer=Velocity in your i18n bundle and Velocity matches
your displayer name in menu-config.xml)
Matt
On Jan 17, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Claudia wrote:
>
> I added VELOCITY=Velocity to TrackerRes.
> A <fmt:message key="VELOCITY"/> will display Velocity when viewing the
> source in your index.jsp
> All following varients failed inside of the index.jsp of a fresh
> struts-menu-2.4.2:
>
> This example chokes on the quotes:
> <menu-el:useMenuDisplayer name="<fmt:message key="VELOCITY"/>"
> config="/templates/simple.html">
> <menu:displayMenu name="ToDoListMenuEdit"/>
> </menu-el:useMenuDisplayer>
>
> These examples:
> <menu-el:useMenuDisplayer name='<fmt:message key="VELOCITY"/>'
> config="/templates/simple.html">
> <menu:displayMenu name="ToDoListMenuEdit"/>
> </menu-el:useMenuDisplayer>
>
> <menu-el:useMenuDisplayer name="<fmt:message key="VELOCITY"/>"
> config="/templates/simple.html">
> <menu:displayMenu name="ToDoListMenuEdit"/>
> </menu-el:useMenuDisplayer>
> give this error:
> javax.servlet.ServletException: The displayer mapping for the
> specified
> MenuDisplayer does not exist
>
> Your reply that it should work gives me hope. Is there any chance
> that you
> can add
> the four lines including the fmt tag in the velocity-el.jsp of your
> demo?
>
> Alternatively jot down the syntax I should be using.
>
> I have been trying to crack this one for a very, very long time :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Claudia
>
> mraible wrote:
>>
>> You should be able to use <menu-el:> for all your tags and get the
>> functionality you're looking for.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Jan 17, 2008 2:29 AM, Claudia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a smarter, shorter way to access values from a property
>>> file and use them directly in the Struts menu tag?
>>>
>>> This test would obviously fail:
>>> <menu-el:useMenuDisplayer name="<fmt:message key="VELOCITY"/>"
>>> config="/templates/simple.html">
>>> <menu:displayMenu name="ToDoListMenuEdit"/>
>>> </menu-el:useMenuDisplayer>
>>>
>>> But if it were possible, it would nicely decouple the attribute
>>> values so
>>> I
>>> can
>>> externalize them without having to repeat them in the jsp file,
>>> as is
>>> needed
>>> in
>>> your working example:
>>> ____________________________________________________________________
>>> ____________
>>> Using
>>> <c:set var="displayer" value="Velocity"/>
>>> <c:set var="menuName" value="ToDoListMenuEdit"/>
>>>
>>> <menu-el:useMenuDisplayer name="${displayer}"
>>> config="/templates/simple.html">
>>> <menu-el:displayMenu name="${menuName}"/>
>>> </menu-el:useMenuDisplayer>
>>> ____________________________________________________________________
>>> _______________
>>>
>>> or my working example:
>>> Using:
>>> Ubuntu 6.10 operating system (built around the Linux kernel).
>>> jdk1.5.0_06
>>> and
>>> apache-tomcat-5.5.20
>>> My property resource file is called TrackerRes.
>>> There I define a key-value pair: VELOCITY=Velocity
>>> To use this in my Struts menu tags, I do the following
>>> tests that work fine. Note that mixing menu-el tags and
>>> normal menu tags dont present a problem.
>>>
>>> <hr />
>>> <fmt:bundle basename="TrackerRes">
>>> Test Current fmt value: <fmt:message key="VELOCITY"/>
>>> </fmt:bundle>
>>> <hr />
>>> <c:set var="d" scope="request">
>>>
>>> <fmt:message key="VELOCITY"/>
>>>
>>> </c:set>
>>>
>>> <hr />
>>> Test Cout: <c:out value='${d}' />
>>>
>>> <hr />
>>> <menu-el:useMenuDisplayer name="${d}" config="/templates/
>>> simple.html">
>>> <menu:displayMenu name="ToDoListMenuEdit"/>
>>> </menu-el:useMenuDisplayer>
>>> ____________________________________________________________________
>>> __________
>>>
>>> Please include the needed snippets in strut-config.xml or web.xml
>>> if such a solution exists. Thanks Matt.
>>>
>>> Claudia
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