Thats an excellent solution for the i18n part.  I will change my code to use 
this method.   

I still don't know what the best way to add variables to the title tho.  I know 
i can have variable placeholders in my resource file ex.

resource_en.properties
record.detail.title=Record Detail:{0}
user.detail.title=User Detail:{0}
application.title=Hello World Application

tiles.xml
<definition name="foo" extends=".template">    <put name="titleKey" 
value="record.detail.title" type="string"/></definition>

jsp template page
// Somehow i need to pass in optional variables that are provided by my 
controller to the title
<fmt:message key="${titleNameKey}"/>


Is this possible with tiles?

btw, sorry for posting to two mailing lists about this if thats bad form.




> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:29:32 -0500
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: user@struts.apache.org
> Subject: Re: i18n and variable tiles definitions
> 
> May I suggest to instead of using the "title" value in the tiles, use 
> the keys (e.g. "titleKey"), then fetched it using whatever approach you 
> want to:
> 
> Example:
> 
> resource_en.properties
> 
> application.title=Hello World Application
> 
> 
> tiles.xml
> 
> <definition name="foo" extends=".template">
>    <put name="titleKey" value="application.title" type="string"/>
> </definition>
> 
> jsp page
> 
> <c:set var="titleNameKey"><tiles:getAsString name="titleKey"/></c:set>
> 
> <fmt:message key="${titleNameKey}"/>
> 
> (of course this uses unnecessary code, but the above will work for sure)
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> 
> Peter Rumstle wrote:
> > Hi everyone, 
> > 
> > I am running into what appears to be a limitation in tiles.  I hope someone 
> > has encountered this problem before and knows of a workaround.  
> > 
> > I have a tiles based layout that accepts a "title" in the tiles definition.
> > 
> >     <definition name="recordDetail" extends=".template">
> >         <put name="title" value="Record Detail"/>
> >         <put name="body" value="/WEB-INF/jsp/tiles/recordDetail.jsp"/>
> >     </definition>
> > 
> > My problem is that I need the title to be more dynamic.  It needs to do two 
> > things:
> > 
> > 1. Support different titles depending on the locale.
> > 2. Accept a dynamic field identifying the record number that the page is 
> > showing.
> > 
> > For example, rather than say "Record Detail" like in my example it should 
> > say "Record Detail: 38847829" and in other languages it should be 
> > translated using an existing ResourceBundle (ex. "Detalle De registro: 
> > 38847829").
> > 
> > My problem lies in the fact that my .template tile includes the <title> 
> > tag, but does not know which page it is rendering.  Only the "body" tile 
> > and the actual tiles definition knows which page it is rendering for.  
> > Other pages use the same .template tile but require different dynamic 
> > fields in their title.
> > 
> > Has anyone got something like this working before?
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
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