Please Help Me With Converting JSP Scripting Elements To c:set .. c:out .. Tags

[JiaPei Jen]

I am converting all the scripting elements in my JSP to <c:.... > tags. I have decided to go one step at the time -- I only want to print out one basic number as a start.

My action class passes an object "TotalPosts" in the following way to my JSP:

request.setAttribute( "TotalPosts", new Integer( totalPosts ) );
return ( mapping.findForward( "success" ) );

and the following scripting elements in my JSP display the value of TotalPosts well:

int totalPosts      = ( ( Integer )request.getAttribute( "TotalPosts" ) ).intValue();
 
<%=totalPosts%>  // I am able to print out the correct 
                    value without any problem.

Now, I have the struts-html-el.tld downloaded and put the following in my application's web.xml file:

  <taglib>
    <taglib-uri>/tags/struts-html-el</taglib-uri>
    <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/lib/struts-html-el.tld</taglib-location>
  </taglib>

And in my JSP, I imported the following:

<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-html-el" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-bean" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/struts-logic" prefix="logic" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/tags/tiles" prefix="tiles" %>

I replaced:

int totalPosts = ( ( Integer )request.getAttribute( "TotalPosts" ) ).intValue();
with
<c:set var="totalPosts" value="${requestScope.TotalPosts}" />

And I replaced:

<%=totalPosts%>
with
<cut value="${requestScope.totalPosts}" />

I cannot print out anything. I got a 'BLANK'.

There must be something I missed. What did go wrong?
[ June 20, 2004: Message edited by: JiaPei Jen ]

[Tim Holloway]

Shouldn't that be something more like

<c :-o	 ut value="totalPosts" scope="request"/>

???

(sorry about the graemlin).
[ June 30, 2004: Message edited by: Tim Holloway ]