Summary

This chapter gave you a first taste of using XML and JSP together. JAXP makes it easy to combine an XML file and an XSL stylesheet to produce new pages. However, XSLT is only part of the picture in using XML and JAXP. In exploring what else we can do, it quickly becomes apparent that there are many APIs available. Each API offers unique features, advantages, and disadvantages. While on paper we could discuss the merits of each, it's within the code that we will find out the benefits of the various tools. In the next chapters, you will learn how to programmatically examine, modify, and act upon an XML document in detail.

In working with JAXP, we discovered a few surprising facts about JSPs. The first is that the secret to using JSPs is ...

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