As far as I understood the example at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1296235/jsp-tricks-to-make-templating-easier/3257426#3257426, you can actually do it:
<%@tag description="User Page template" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> <%@taglib prefix="t" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags" %> <%@attribute name="userName" required="true"%> <t:genericpage> <jsp:attribute name="header"> <h1>Welcome ${userName}</h1> </jsp:attribute> <jsp:attribute name="footer"> <p id="copyright">Copyright 1927, Future Bits When There Be Bits Inc.</p> </jsp:attribute> <jsp:body> <jsp:doBody/> </jsp:body> </t:genericpage> Here, you pass JSP fragements encapsulated in jsp:attribute. I didn't try that myself, though. -Moritz On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mike McNally <emmecin...@gmail.com> wrote: > With a layout, a "parameter" can consist of a large block of JSP. > Like, the page body, or a large fraction of it, or a dialog body, or > page navigation block. There can be any number of such parameters. > > You can do that with a Java-coded tag but not a tag file, other than > the single "body". > > That said, I like tags too :-) > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Will Hartung <redro...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> >> On Jan 31, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Mike McNally wrote: >> >>> Tags are great for a variety of things. Stripes layouts are (to me) >>> really like "super tags". One of the main qualitative improvements >>> over tag files is that a layout component can be a whole bunch of JSP >>> (including, once and I hope again soon, more invocations of layouts >>> :-) >>> >>> To me the use of nested layouts is a simplification, not a >>> complication. I use a surrounding layout for the overall page, and >>> then when there are common page components that call for more than >>> what a tag or (ick) a jsp include can do, I use more layouts. It makes >>> it much easier to manage site-wide changes. >> >> I've never used Layout, I've always used Tag Files. I'm a Tag File zealot. >> They're simply too simple and too powerful to make be bother to look >> anywhere else. Tag files give JSP a refactorability and elegance I haven't >> found really in any other markup solution. >> >> Regards, >> >> Will Hartung >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! >> The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers >> is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, >> Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d >> _______________________________________________ >> Stripes-users mailing list >> Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users > > > > -- > Turtle, turtle, on the ground, > Pink and shiny, turn around. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Stripes-users mailing list > Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Stripes-users mailing list Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users