JavaServer Pages, Second Edition

Name

<x:out>

Synopsis

The <x:out> action adds the evaluation result of an XPath expression to the current response buffer (JspWriter). The evaluation result is always converted to a String, following the coercing rules for the XPath string( ) function.

Syntax

<x:out select="XPathExpression" [escapeXml="true|false"] />

Attributes

Attribute name	Java type	Dynamic value accepted	Description
select	String	No	The XPath expression to evaluate.
escapeXml	boolean	Yes	If true, the characters < > & ' " are converted to the corresponding XML character entity codes.

Example

<x:out select="$doc/meerkat/image/url/text( )" />