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Hello,

I am having trouble getting my c:param working. I've looked all around the web for a solution. Here's some of the code that I have:

test.jsp

<%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" language="java" errorPage="" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<c:import url="test2.jsp" >
    <c:param name="testVar" value="0" />
</c:import>
</body>
</html>

test2.jsp

<%@ page pageEncoding="UTF-8" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" language="java" errorPage="" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
hello
${param.testVar}
</body>
</html>

Here is what is printing.

hello ${param.testVar}

I was expecting "hello 0" to print. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Edited by mike_2000_17 because: Fixed formatting
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Member Avatar for parry_kulk

The code is fine. It seems that the EL is not evaluating in the webserver. The reasons for these may be,
1] Your web.xml should does not have reference to web-app_2_4.xsd schema or higher
e.g.

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
    version="2.4">

2] You might have disabled the EL in either jsp or web.xml
In JSP you can disable by the configuring @page with isELIgnored=true.(Which doesnt seems to be the case looking at the code snippet posted)
Or
In web.xml it is configured with <el-ignored>true</el-ignored>

Also there could be a remote possibility of conflicting jar files

Hope this helps

Member Avatar for letheredge

Thanks so much, Parry. I added isELIgnored="false" to the @page and it is working fine. Now on to other problems. :)

Member Avatar for ~s.o.s~

A better option would be for you to configure the same in your web.xml file so that:
* changes can be applied to all the JSP files with a single configuration
* changing the configuration amounts to just changing the web.xml file and not each and every JSP

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