How to set a page variable in a JSF composition

Question

I'd like to set a variable in a JSF page that can be used within a multiple defines of a composition.
If it was possible I would like to do it like this:
    <c:set var="myvar" value="#{ejb.value}" />
    <ui:composition template="/layout.xhtml">
      <ui:define name="title">#{myvar.title}</ui:define>
      <ui:define name="content">#{mvar.content}</ui:define>
    </ui:composition>Problem is that anything outside of a <composition> tag is disregarded by JSF, and also that the <set> tag must be within a <view> tag for it to set the variable so that JSF to access.
Essentially I want to retrieve the value from the ejb only once in a page, and reuse it within multiple define tags.
Is there a way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Figured it out.
Essentially just move the <set> to within the first define as such:
    <ui:composition template="/layout.xhtml">
      <ui:define name="title">
         <c:set var="myvar" value="#{ejb.value}" />
         #{myvar.title}
      </ui:define>
      <ui:define name="content">#{mvar.content}</ui:define>
    </ui:composition>