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strut 2 s:select won't work within a jsp file

Hi I am getting an error where my s:select will work fine in the parent jsp file but when it is within another jsp file that is being called upon by the parent.jsp it doesn't seem to work anymore. I removed everything down to just these two lines and all the extra stuff around the select. Any suggestion or advice is greatly appreciated!
parent.jsp
<%# taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s" %>
<s:select label="some label"
list="#{'01':'Dev','2':'Manager','03':'Customer'}"
name="test"
/>
<s:component template="child.jsp" templateDir="/pub/" theme="folder1" />
child.jsp
<%# taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s" %>
<s:select label="some label"
list="#{'01':'Dev','2':'Manager','03':'Customer'}"
name="test"
/>
File structure
/pub
----/folder1
--------parent.jsp <-- dropdown displays appears
--------child.jsp <--- dropdown breaks
Error message
Struts Problem Report
Struts has detected an unhandled exception:
Messages:
Non-normalized name, starts with "/": /pub//simple/select.ftl
File:
freemarker/cache/TemplateCache.java
Line number:
914

From what I understand turns out it seems to be that you need to set the templateDir inside the child.jsp to the path to the template directory that it is within Struts 2 so it can find the code for s:select. This code managed to fix the issue:
<s:set var="templateDir" value="%{'template'}" scope="page"/>

JSTL if tag always execute as true

I am working with a JSTL and trying to implement a if tag
below is my code for file login.tag
<c:if test="${not empty param.error}">
//do something
</c:if>
My understanding is when I access this page
with path/index.jsp //the if tag is not executed
with path/index.jsp?error=wrongpassword //the if tag is executed
But what I am getting now is the if tag is always execute true, Please advice

If you want to use c:if tag you should use JSP taglib directive for JSTL core tag library. Use below code at the top of the JSP
<%# taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
You also need libraries for JSTL as dependencies to your project. See this answer to find maven dependencies.

.jspf not compiling even though in jsp

I have two files. choose.jsp and little.jspf
choose.jsp
<c:import url="little.jspf">
<c:param name="his" value="${param.choice}"></c:param>
</c:import>
little.jspf
<%# page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<br />
this is little.jsp <br />
I just heard that somebody here said ${param.his} is important.
Output
output is I just heard that somebody here said ${param.his} is important.
But when I change the .jspf to .jsp it compiles fine. Is it not possible to pass parameter to .jspf file ?

A .jspf file is supposed to be statically included (with the <%#include %> directive) inside another JSP. Not dynamically included or imported.
I would create a JSP tag file instead of using c:import.

how to add dynamic value using ternary operator in jstl

In my jsp page i am adding title attribute dynamically in anchor using this code.
<c:set var="titleAttributeValue" value="${(anchorListfields[3] != '') ? 'title=${anchorListfields[3]}' : ''}" scope="page" />
but rather than showing the value of title attribute in anchor it showing like this <span><span>Start my Business</span><i></i></span>
how can i achieve this where is my error in syntax

You codes seems to be working.
Ensure you have JSTL library in your /WEB-INF/lib.
Add <%# taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %> directive to your page.
I am using glassfish 4

JSP Tag Files in subdirectories, using a single taglib prefix. Is that possible?

I currently have my .tag files declared with:
<%#taglib prefix="t" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags" %>
Example of the path of a tag file :
/WEB-INF/tags/test.tag
And I use them like so :
<t:test oneAttributeKey="oneAttributeValue">
some content...
</t:test>
My problem : I don't want to put all my tag files in one single folder, "/WEB-INF/tags".
I would prefere to have them in different subdirectories :
/WEB-INF/tags/users/
/WEB-INF/tags/widgetsA/
/WEB-INF/tags/widgetsB/
(...)
Is this possible, without creating a different taglib prefix for each and everyone of them?
Example of what I'd like to avoid :
<%#taglib prefix="t_users" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags/users" %>
<%#taglib prefix="t_widgetsA" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags/widgetsA" %>
<%#taglib prefix="t_widgetsB" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags/widgetsB" %>
Example of what I would like, using a single "t" prefix :
<t:users/onetag oneAttributeKey="oneAttributeValue">
some content...
</t:users/onetag>
Does a similar solution exist?
UPDATE : BalusC showed it's possible to use one prefix only, by defining all the tag files in a single .tld. I guess my question was not clear enough then : I'd like to know if it's possible to use the tag files in multiple subdirectories, without having to specify a path to each of them anywhere except in the element that use them (ex: "<t:users/onetag")!
What I do not like about JSP Tags is that they act very differently than regular JSP files, even if they actually share very similar content. In fact, I even decided to put all my jsp files inside the /WEB-INF/tags/ folder, so they are side to side with the tag files (I had to choose /WEB-INF/tags/ for that, since this folder is mandatory for the tag files, for some reason)! I don't understand why some of my files containing HTML would go in /WEB-INF/jsp/ and some others in /WEB-INF/tags/!!
I want to be able to group the jsp and tag files into directories, depending of what they are related to! Example :
/WEB-INF/tags/users/userProfileLayout.tag
/WEB-INF/tags/users/employeeProfile.jsp
/WEB-INF/tags/users/employerProfile.jsp
/WEB-INF/tags/widgetsA/widgetALayout.tag
/WEB-INF/tags/widgetsA/oldWidgetA.jsp
/WEB-INF/tags/widgetsA/newWidgetA.jsp
But this forces me to declare the path of each of the subdirectories, in multiple #tablib or in a .tld, which I find a little bit inconvenient. I'll live with it, but I think it could be improved.

Define them as <tag-file> in a single .tld file which you put in /WEB-INF folder.
E.g. /WEB-INF/my-tags.tld
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<taglib
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-jsptaglibrary_2_1.xsd"
version="2.1"
>
<display-name>My custom tags</display-name>
<tlib-version>1.0</tlib-version>
<short-name>my</short-name>
<uri>http://example.com/tags</uri>
<tag-file>
<name>foo</name>
<path>/WEB-INF/tags/users/foo.tag</path>
</tag-file>
<tag-file>
<name>bar</name>
<path>/WEB-INF/tags/widgetsA/bar.tag</path>
</tag-file>
<tag-file>
<name>baz</name>
<path>/WEB-INF/tags/widgetsB/baz.tag</path>
</tag-file>
</taglib>
Use it in your JSPs as follows
<%#taglib prefix="my" uri="http://example.com/tags" %>
...
<my:foo />
<my:bar />
<my:baz />

A pattern that I follow, even though doesn't address the OP's problem directly, I find it makes the whole situation a lot less painful, which is creating a JSP Fragment where I define all taglibs:
/WEB-INF/views/taglibs.jspf
<%# taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%# taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %>
<%# taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>
<%# taglib prefix="layout" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags/layout" %>
<%# taglib prefix="t_users" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags/users" %>
<%# taglib prefix="t_widgetsA" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags/widgetsA" %>
<%# taglib prefix="t_widgetsB" tagdir="/WEB-INF/tags/widgetsB" %>
And then include this JSP Fragment at the top of every JSP file:
/WEB-INF/views/users/employeeProfile.jsp
<%# include file="/WEB-INF/views/taglibs.jspf" %>
<layout:main>
<h1>Employee Profile</h1>
...
</layout:main>

Should work. Folder names under the specified tag-dir value become hyphen-separated parts of the tag names you would use.