Controllers With Apex:include And Apex:composition
Answer : If you can afford to put the markup in the entry point page, this may be interesting: apex:include targets cannot traverse standard controllers but apex:composition defines can traverse included pages Otherwise I think the only way Visualforce can talk to other Visualforce is by using an apex:component that exposes an apex:attribute . With both apex:include and apex:composition the 'inners' are evaluated and flattened before they get inserted. re: includes: Can I use {!properties} from OuterPageController? Nope. re: compositions: Can I use {!properties} from OuterPageController? Also nope, those properties can only be evaluated from inside the apex:define block. Can I test or examine the contents of an in my inner controller? Not from the inner controller :-( there's no way to get a handle on the value of an <apex:insert /> as a variable or property. Composition refers to a VF page which can be used as a template, it assumed it will have the ...