Problem trying to do an "include" in JSF

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I'm trying to include a chunk of static html in all of my pages. I tried the code below and it didn't work. I've also tried a few other ways and can't get it to work. I was reading about somehow using ui tags, but I couldn't get that to work either. What do I need to do to include a page with JSF.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
    xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
    xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">

<h:head>
...
</h:head>
<h:body>

    <jsp:include src="/common/includes/founcred1.html" />
...
</h:body>

1) In which way didn't it work? 2) Which templating engine do you use (facelets or jsp)? — Roman, Aug 11 '11 at 15:39
It doesn't work in the way posted, plus I tried doing it the JSP way with `<%@ @>`. As far as the templating engine, how would I check that? I have to modify an existing project and i'm new to JSF. — Catfish, Aug 11 '11 at 15:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Given the XML syntax of your markup, you seem to be using Facelets (*.xhtml) as view technology. Facelets is a completely distinct view technology and the successor of JSP. You should not be using JSP tags in Facelets. Forget JSP for now. Use Facelets tags. They are to be declared by the XML namespage xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets". To include page fragments in Facelets, use <ui:include> tag.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
    xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"
    xmlns:a4j="http://richfaces.org/a4j"
    xmlns:rich="http://richfaces.org/rich">
    <h:head>
        ...
    </h:head>
    <h:body>
        <ui:include src="/common/includes/founcred1.xhtml" />
    </h:body>
</html>

You only need to rename your founcred1.html to founcred1.xhtml and wrap the content in an <ui:composition>.

<ui:composition 
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets">
    <p>HTML here</p>
</ui:composition>

Problem trying to do an "include" in JSF

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