Creating a JSP Document

A JSP document is an XML document and therefore must comply with the XML standard. Fundamentally, this means that a JSP document must be well formed, meaning that each start tag must have a corresponding end tag and that the document must have only one root element. In addition, JSP elements included in the JSP document must comply with the XML syntax.

Much of the standard JSP syntax is already XML-compliant, including all the standard actions. Those elements that are not compliant are summarized in Table 13-2 along with the equivalent elements in XML syntax. As you can see, JSP documents are not much different from JSP pages. If you know standard JSP syntax, you will find it easy to convert your current JSP pages to XML ...

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