This seemed to work: <%@ page contentType="text/plain" %> <%@ taglib prefix="x" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/xml"; %>
<x:parse var="doc"> <parent><child/><child/><child/><child/></parent> </x:parse> <x:set var="child1" select="$doc//parent/child[1]"/> <x:set var="child4" select="$doc//parent/child[4]"/> child1: <x:out select="count($child1/preceding-sibling::child) + 1"/> child4: <x:out select="count($child4/preceding-sibling::child) + 1"/> Of course, if you had elements like <child id="1"/>, it would be even easier to get at: child1: <x:out select="$child1/@id"/> Quoting Michael Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If I have an XML stream like this: > > <parent><child/><child/><child/><child/></parent> > > I can refer to each child individually using XPath: > > //parent/child[1] gives me the first child, > //parent/child[2] gives me the second child, > etc. > > When I use JSTL <xml> tags, is it possible to get that > ID number out? I've got a List of child tags that I > want to use in an HTML checkbox input, and I'd like to > be able to identify selected items by their ID. > Thanks - MOD -- Kris Schneider <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D.O.Tech <http://www.dotech.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
