Have you set up JSTL? If you use the latest version JSTL1.1 core tags you can do this:
<c:set var="child_id" value="someValue"/> > <xtags:forEach context="<%=parsed%>" > select="//[EMAIL PROTECTED]/class"> > ... > </xtags:forEach> Here are some JSTL installation instructions: http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/standard-doc/standard/GettingStarted.html --- Ashish Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am using xtags library in a JSP and am having > trouble using Java variables while selecting XML > nodes. The XML to be parsed is: > > <xtags:parse id="parsed"> > <parent id="1"> > <child id="c1"> > <class grade="art"/> > <class grade="science"/> > </child> > <child> ... </child> > </parent> > </xtags:parse> > > <xtags:forEach context="<%=parsed%>" > select="//[EMAIL PROTECTED]<%=child_id%>/class"> > ... > </xtags:forEach> > > Where child_id is a Java variable defined in the > JSP. > > The above code throws an exception complaining about > '<' in the expression. Even after escaping the > character it does not work. I even tried with > indexing > like, > > select="//child[i]/class" > > where i is the index of the line. The problem is the > above select code returns all the child nodes > instead > of the index=i. Seems like its null or something. > > Help is highly appreciated. > > Thanks, > -Ashish > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
