question about definitions/composition

[Matt Benson <gu...@yahoo.com>]

I am attempting to have definitions like:

<definition name="foo" template="foo-template" />

where foo-template includes tiles.insertAttribute name="foo-attr"

<definition name="bar" extends="foo">
  <put-attribute name="foo-attr" value="bar-template"
                 cascade="true" />
</definition>

where bar-template includes tiles.insertAttribute name="bar-attr"

<definition name="baz" extends="bar">
  <put-attribute name="bar-attr" value="baz-template" />
</definition>

When I try to render baz, the runtime stack includes foo-attr=bar-template and bar-attr=baz-template, but when tiles tries to render bar-attr, nested in the evaluation of foo-attr, bar-attr cannot be resolved.  Am I doing something fundamentally wrong with my composition?  Note that specifically I am using trunk/freemarker.

Thanks,
Matt