Conditional EL expression for icon attribute

Hi Folks,
I am using Jdev 11.1.1.4.0
I am using the af:commandImageLink component. It has an attribute "icon" which supports EL expression. I am tying to use a condition like
icon="#{isFlagTrue ? '/image/image1.jpg' : '/image/image2.jpg'}"
It doesnt seem to work. If I just give the path /image/image1.jpg for the icon attribute without the condition, the icon is displayed properly.
Any idea why the above condition is not working?
Thanks
Vishal

Actually I tried that. Even tried
icon="#{isFlagTrue ? /image/image1.jpg : /image/image2.jpg}"
But nothing works for me

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is to say, you can assign tag1, tag2, and tag3 to a single topic.
3. Right-click the desired layout and select Properties.
4. Click the Define button to the right of the Conditional
Build Tag drop-down menu. The Define Conditional Build Tag
Expression dialog will appear.
5. Click the Advanced button. The Advanced area will appear
at the bottom of the dialog.
6. Select a tag from the Available Conditional Build Tags
drop-down menu.
7. Click the Add Tag button. The selected tag will appear in
the Conditional Build Tag Expression display window.
8. Click the AND button.
9. Select another tag from the drop-down menu.
10. Click the Add Tag button.
11. Repeat steps 8-10 for each tag you wish to add to the
expression.
12. Click the OK button to close the dialog.
13. Click the Save button to save your layout with the new
build expression.
That's it! The trick is to use the ADVANCED button in the
Define Conditional Build Tag Expression dialog. Doing so allows you
to build inclusional expressions rather than exclusional
expressions, so you can avoid the hassle you described in your
post. Using this method, I defined two build tags (A and B) and
applied them to three topics as follows:
* Topic 1: Tag A
* Topic 2: Tag B
* Topic 3: Tags A and B
I then defined an expression that simply included tag A. When
I compiled my help, topics 1 and 3 appeared in the output, but
topic 2 did not.

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