Noob: Includes and variables

In reading previous questions on this I am not understanding why my code isn't working.

I have
editnews.jsp and within it I am including xt_editnews.jsp.

In editnews I cannot call a variable that I defined in xt_editnews.jsp.

Please help.

Code follows:

editnews.jsp
<%@ page language = "java" import="java.sql.*, java.io.*, java.util.*, dbo.*" %>
<%@ include file="../includes/top.jsp" %>
<%@ include file="xt_editnews.jsp" %>
<%

out.print(vNewsTitle);
%>
<form action="news_action.jsp" method="post" name="editnews">
<input type="text" name="fnewstitle" value="">



</form>

xt_editnews.jsp
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="sql" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/sql_rt" %>
<jsp:useBean id="news" class="dbo.cnews" />

<%
int vnewsid = Integer.parseInt(request.getParameter("newsid"));
out.print(vnewsid);
news.connect();
ResultSet rsSingleNews1 = news.getSingleNews(vnewsid);
while (rsSingleNews1.next())
{
String vNewsTitle = rsSingleNews1.getString("NewsTitle");

out.print(vNewsTitle);
}
%>

If I do not do the out.print in editnews.jsp it works fine.
When I do, I get:
HTTP Status 500 -

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP

An error occurred at line: -1 in the jsp file: null

Generated servlet error:
[javac] Since fork is true, ignoring compiler setting.
[javac] Compiling 1 source file
[javac] Since fork is true, ignoring compiler setting.
[javac] C:\tomcat5\jakarta-tomcat-5\dist\temp\org\apache\jsp\manager\editnews_jsp.java:161: cannot resolve symbol
[javac] symbol : variable vNewsTitle
[javac] location: class org.apache.jsp.manager.editnews_jsp
[javac] out.print(vNewsTitle);
[javac] ^
[javac] 1 error

The reason that it cannot find the vNewsTitle variable is because you have decalred it local to the while loop and not the page.

Try this instead and see if it works.

Hi Nemi,

Thank you!!!

That was it exactly.

--CC