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Asked: 2026-05-30T20:07:41+00:00

I have a problem with some JSTL not evaluating a ‘gt’ as expected, some

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I have a problem with some JSTL not evaluating a ‘gt’ as expected, some code:

<c:choose>
<c:when test="${param.totalPages > pageLinkCount}">

The JSP never renders the content of that when block, rather it always renders the block content. Something about the test is failing.

I tried a solution found here for a similar looking problem where the solution involved adding a declaration to tell JSP/JSTL engine that the vars are Longs (they are for me too)…

<%@ attribute name="currentPage" required="true" type="java.lang.Long" %>

… but I found that error:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: /WEB-INF/jsp/includes/pagination.jsp(4,13) &lt;%@ attribute directive can only be used in a tag file
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:40)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.dispatch(ErrorDispatcher.java:407)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.jspError(ErrorDispatcher.java:132)

The test is in a JSP include included like this:

<jsp:include page="../includes/pagination.jsp" >
    <jsp:param value="${pages}" name="totalPages"/> 
    ....other params

Some test values output into the html:

param.TotalPages: 171

TotalPages: 171 (local JSTL var I tried assigning the value of param.totalPages)

Current: 64

BeginPage: 1

EndPage: 171

PageLinkCount: 3

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  1. Editorial Team

    I changed from the 

    <jsp:include

    style include to the 

    <@include

    directive, changed the params to c:set var instead and now it seems to work.

    So as much as I’d prefer to use jsp:include style of including pages it seems params are handled not quite as I expected so I’ll stick to @ directive style includes for now.

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