Hi there,
>Is anybody have HOWTO for using xsl stylesheets for jsp output in Tomcat?
>I think about something like xtp in Resin.
Don't know anything about xtp or Resin, but there are a couple of possible answers to
your question:
1. Take a look at Cocoon, if you're insterested in trying XSP instead of JSP.
2. To stick with JSP try the x-tags library (also from jakarta.apache.org). It allows
you to parse XML within your
JSP page, and format it using XSL. Alternatively you can just include an XSL
formatted XML file in your output.
x-tags also suppots XPath and a sortof dynamic XSL-in-JSP syntax, allowing some pretty
funky stuff:
(If your browser displays HTML the following may not work too well...)
--
<xtags:parse id="doc1">
<root>
<author name="Twylite" />
</root>
</xtags:parse>
<xtags:valueOf select="//author/@name" />
--
This will parse the inline XML document, and then output (to the current JSP output
stream) the name attribute
of the author element. Combining that with other elements of JSP, you can do stuff
like:
--
<xtags:parse id="doc1">
<root>
<article title="<%= article.getTitle() %>" keywords="<%=
article.getKeywords() %>" />
<author name="<%= article.getAuthor() %>" />
</root>
</xtags:parse>
<xtags:style xsl="/style/article.xsl"/>
--
This will parse the inline XML, then apply the specified stylesheet and include the
results in the output stream.
(Note: before you tear out your hair trying to use xtags:style ... the xsl= path MUST
have a leading / )
3. You can generate XML from the JSP page, and allow the browser to do the XSL
formatting by associating
the appropriate stylesheet with the xml generated:
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="mystyle.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<SomeRootElement xmlns="http://www.mydomain.com";>
<!-- blah -->
</SomeRootElement>
Hope this helps
Twylite
