variables in a jsp:include?

[Pat Wallwork]

Hi,
I need to use some conditional logic to determine which HTML pages to include in a jsp file. I have tried a couple of variations and searched through some books and online resources and have not found a suitable way to do this.
My jsp provides data that needs to use a specific HTML header and footer out of a choice of about 20 different files.
If there is a way I can do this with includes or some other method I would really appreciate a suggestion.
Thanks,
Pat

[Pat Wallwork]

I solved my problem and thought I'd post it here in case anyone else runs into this. It seems a little weird that it wouldn't work the way I was doing it the first time, but it does now :-)
At first I was trying to use includes like this:
<jsp:include page="/includes/<%= memberID %>/header.html" flush="true" />
and it would not work. I decided to try putting the entire URL together in a String first, and then write my include like this:
<jsp:include page="<%= memberIDHeader %>" flush="true" />
and now it works! I don't quite understand why it didn't work the first way but I'm happy now anyways :-)
Pat

[b youngblood]

trying to solve this very problem except my include file is a jsp and it says "Undefined variable or class name" on the included file. So it doesnt seem to be using the parent pages code.
[ July 07, 2003: Message edited by: b youngblood ]

[Peter Kleczka]

Pat said

At first I was trying to use includes like this:

<jsp:include page="/includes/<%= memberID %>/header.html" flush="true" />

and it would not work. I decided to try putting the entire URL together in a String first, and then write my include like this:

<jsp:include page="<%= memberIDHeader %>" flush="true" />

and now it works! I don't quite understand why

I'm also trying to figure this out. Can someone explain?

[Bear Bibeault]

When a scriptlet expression is used as an attribute, it must be the entire attribute or none at all.

Another way of looking at it: an attribute can be a hard-coded value or a scriptlet expression, but not a mish-mash of the two.

Are you using JSP 2.0? There are better ways to accomplish this if so.
[ July 06, 2005: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]