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So here is what I'd like to be able to do:
This of course, doesn't work.

In english: I need to retrieve a parameter and depending on that parameter, fill in an area of my page with one of five different pages. I am probably missing the easiest solution, because right now I just can't see how to do this sort of thing, but it obviously has to be possible!

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Try this..

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I had not thought of that, and I think I once wrote ASP pages like this... but here is what it gave me:

But another problem, even if this did work. Doesn't this approach assume that JSP's get processed in a 'dual pass' mode. One pass would have to be for the 'if' selection part, and the second part would actually have to do the jsp:include.

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Well, that was the right suggestion with one modification. It needed the { and } braces.
What confused me about the 'dual pass', is that I forgot that the jsp:include tag gets translated by the JSP compiler into actual java code that gets the requestdispatcher etc, etc... and that all three conditions are actually compiled into the servlet, but of course only one of them gets performed at request-time, based on that variable. I was thinking that the JSP compiler would take the <jsp:include....> tag and turn it into an out.println("<jsp:include...>"); but of course this doesn't happen, because it's outside the <% %>'s.

Thanks for the help.

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You beat me to the punch.. most welcome

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Thanks for the tip.
I got conditional including jsp working.

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I think you could also do this with a JSTL tag, if you want to avoid scripting

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Kathy

p.s. I edited this to keep the colon: and o from turning into THIS guy

So... there is NOT supposed to be a space between the ":" and "o" in the <c: otherwise> Anyone know how to disable the graemlins?

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There's a nice little checkbox on the bottom of the page just above the lower "Add Reply" button labelled "Disable smilies in this post." that will disable smilies

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Thanks Kathy for the tip.
This thread started 3 years ago and technology has advanced since then!
The tag solution is better I think.

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Originally posted by Bruce Jin:
Thanks Kathy for the tip.
This thread started 3 years ago and technology has advanced since then!
The tag solution is better I think.

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Originally posted by Bruce Jin:
Thanks Kathy for the tip.
This thread started 3 years ago and technology has advanced since then!
The tag solution is better I think.

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