Antonio: That seems counterintuitive to me, but it worked.
Thanks for your help! Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, JAMM Consulting, (972)612-6056, www.JAMMConsulting.com FREE! Valuable info on how your business can reduce operating costs by 17% or more in 6 months or less! http://newsletter.JAMMConsulting.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 1:44 AM > To: user@struts.apache.org > Subject: Re: (Newbie question) tiles:getAsString error > attribute not found > > > In Tiles, you can put attributes only into layout pages. In > short terms > you should modify your tiles-defs.xml this way: > > <definition name="header.with.title" path="/header.jsp"> > <put name="pageTitle" value="Welcome" /> > </definition> > > <definition name="base.definition" path="/layout.jsp"> > <put name="leftNav" value="/leftNav.jsp" /> > <put name="footer" value="/footer.jsp" /> > </definition> > > <definition name="page.home" extends="base.definition"> > <put name="header" value="header.with.title" /> > <put name="body" value="/home.jsp" /> > </definition> > > Ciao > Antonio Petrelli > > Neil Aggarwal wrote: > > >Hello: > > > >I am a newbie to struts and am trying to get a handle on > >tiles:getAsString tag. I am having a problem in > >that is complains that the attribute I am trying to > >get does not exist. > > > >Here is what I have in my tiles-defs.xml: > > > ><tiles-definitions> > > <!-- Base Tiles Definition --> > > <definition name="base.definition" path="/layout.jsp"> > > <put name="leftNav" value="/leftNav.jsp" /> > > <put name="header" value="/header.jsp" /> > > <put name="footer" value="/footer.jsp" /> > > </definition> > > > > <!-- Tiles definition of home page --> > > <definition name="page.home" extends="base.definition"> > > <put name="pageTitle" value="Welcome" /> > > <put name="body" value="/home.jsp" /> > > </definition> > ></tiles-definitions> > > > >I have an index.jsp that loads the page.home defintion: > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED] uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %> > ><tiles:insert definition="page.home" /> > > > >Here is the layout.jsp (trimmed): > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED] language="java" %> > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED] file="/imports.jsp" %> > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED] uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html" > prefix="html" > %> > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED] uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-tiles" > prefix="tiles" > >%> > > > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > > > ><html:html locale="true"> > > <body background="/images/pageBackground.gif"> > > <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> > > <tr> > > <td align="right" valign="top" width="150"><tiles:insert > >attribute="leftNav" /></td> > > <td valign="top"><html:img border="0" height="700" > >src="/images/transparent1x1.gif" width="10" /></td> > > <td align="left" valign="top"><tiles:insert > attribute="header" > >/><tiles:insert attribute="body" /><tiles:insert attribute="footer" > /></td> > > </tr> > > </table> > > </body> > ></html:html> > > > >Here is the header.jsp (trimmed): > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED] language="java" %> > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED] file="/imports.jsp" %> > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED] uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-html" > prefix="html" > %> > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED] uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/tags-tiles" > prefix="tiles" > >%> > > > ><table> > > <tr> > > <td class="pageTitle"><tiles:getAsString name="pageTitle" /></td> > > </tr> > > > >When I try to load the page (You can see what I have at > >http://dev.crcbusinessservices.com/crcgroup/index.jsp) > > > >I get this error in the tomcat log: > >SEVERE: ServletException in '/layout.jsp': > >ServletException in '/header.jsp': > >Error - tag.getAsString : > >attribute 'pageTitle' not found in context. Check tag syntax > > > >Any ideas? > > > >Thanks, > > Neil > > > >-- > >Neil Aggarwal, JAMM Consulting, (972)612-6056, www.JAMMConsulting.com > >FREE! Valuable info on how your business can reduce > operating costs by > >17% or more in 6 months or less! http://newsletter.JAMMConsulting.com > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]