This might be useful:
http://www.mail-archive.com/struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg14326.html
Brian K. Buckley wrote:
>Is there a good way to capture the output from a snippet of jsp into a
>String variable that can be reused multiple times in a page?
>
>- Brian
>
>As a simple example, if one needed to have the line:
>
><tr><th align='left' >Name</th><td align='right' ><html:text
>property='name'/></td></tr>
>
>appear in several places, how can one set a String namerow so that the line
>can be redisplayed by saying <%=namerow%> instead of repeating the whole
>snippet? Note that the snippet includes a custom tag.
>
>
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