XML Tag Library

The JSTL XML tag set is listed in Table 14-5.

Table 14-5. XML Tags
AreaFunctionTagsPrefix
XMLCore
out
parse
set
x
Flow control
choose
  when
  otherwise
forEach
if
Transformation
transform
  param

A key aspect of dealing with XML documents is to be able to easily access their content. XPath (see How XPath Works, page 247), a W3C recommendation since 1999, provides an easy notation for specifying and selecting parts of an XML document. In the JSTL XML tags, XPath expressions specified using the select attribute are used to select portions of XML data streams. Note that XPath is used as a local expression language only for the select attribute. This means that values specified for select attributes are evaluated using the XPath expression ...

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