If the emails direct me to where the material is, rather than telling me to go look for it, I'll be happy. My last few emails would suggest I am looking around for stuff.
"You could find or make an xml parsing taglib." I am trying to find one! Again, any 'direction' from the list, rather than vilification, is appreciated! Paul. You may get a flood of email telling you to read up on taglibs. You could find or make an xml parsing taglib. -AAron >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: JSP + custom tags (XML) >Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 09:50:33 +0800 > >Hi, > In my quest to be able to parse a 10 line XML file in a JSP >(notice the sarcasm there?) and extract an element value, I have come >accross a few PDFs that talk of custom tags - and for the purposes of XML, >a taglib directive. In several examples I saw <%@ taglib uri="..." >prefix="tl" %> and syntax such as <tl:parse id=...". Can anyone shed some >light on this please? What is 'uri'? Presuming it was a path to my XML >file I plugged in - <%@ taglib uri="myfile.xml" prefix="tl" %>, hoping I >could parse it and extract elements using <tl:parse id=.... etc. Supplying >the XML file below, I was given the error in the browser: > >org.apache.jasper.JasperException: XML parsing error on file /myfile.xml: >(line 3, col -1): Element type "books" is not declared. > ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> ><books> > > <book isbn="123"> > <title>1</title> > <quantity>10</quantity> > <price>$17.95</price> > </book> > ></books> > >What have I stumbled upon? Am i way off thinking I can use this syntax to >parse my XML file? What is the significance of the error displayed? > >Thanks very much > >paul. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
