Re: import tag for dynamic content

Hassan,

If I create a url with a context relative path (e.g. /x/y/z) and the I use this in the url attribute of an import tag, the import tag seems to attempt a lookup of a file in the web application.

So given this...

<c:url var="aURL" value="/x/y/z"/>
Get resource at z
<c:import url="${aURL}" var="xml" />

The link in href attribute in the browser is a valid url, but the url attribute in the import tag is not. I get a file not found exception for /x/y/z. Import seems to want to lookup a static resource (html page for example) located on the file system and not open connection to some network resource. I am assuming from the name (import) that this is probably what is expected. Doesn't help me though.

If I set the value in the URL to /x/y/z.html (assuming that resource exists) all is well. So the question is can I 'import' dynamic content (from a servlet in my case) rather than a static resource?

I guess I could point my URL to a JSP that 'includes' the content I want, assuming that include works properly. I still think I am missing something.

Cheers,
Paul B.

Hassan Schroeder-2 wrote:

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:43 AM, paulbrickell
<paul.brickell@evolvedintelligence.com> wrote:

> Agreed. Just doesn't work.

? Uh, "doesn't work" exactly how?

This
   <c:url var="xmlURL" value="/x/y/z"/>
sets `xmlURL`  to a very different value compared to your original
   <c:set var="url" value="x/y/z"/>

What's the exact error?
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