My understanding is that if I specify body content for the
<tiles:putAttribute>, that content will be evaluated and the resulting string
is what will be available for insertion into my template using
<tiles:insertAttribute>. For example, I have myTemplate.jsp which includes
this:
<table>
<c:forEach begin="1" end="5" var="current">
<tr>
<tiles:insertAttribute name="rowContent"/>
</tr>
</c:forEach>
</table>
and myPage.jsp which includes this:
<tiles:insertTemplate template="/tiles/myTemplate.jsp">
<tiles:putAttribute name="rowContent">
<td><c:out value="${current}"/></td>
</tiles:putAttribute>
</tiles:insertTemplate>
Because ${current} is undefined when the body content is evaluated, this
produces a table with 5 rows, each of which contains a single cell with nothing
in it. Is this an unavoidable consequence of the way Tiles works, or is there
a way to make Tiles treat the content of the putAttribute tag as a literal
string to be inserted into the template and then evaluated along with the rest
of the template page?
Tim Kannenberg
Celera Systems LLC
