Re: Using Java variables in Xtags select

It's good to know that you got your code working. 

However, using JSTL tags as mentioned in the previous
post is a good programming practice.

It might become evident that it is much cleaner to use
than JSP scriptlets as your JSP code grows lager. 

All the best.

--- Ashish Srivastava <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Rashmi. I also got it working by creating a
> String object for the select and then using it
> instead.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Rashmi Rubdi <[email protected]>
> To: Tag Libraries Users List
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 5:24:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Using Java variables in Xtags select
> 
> 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="//child[@id=$child_id]/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="//child[@id=<%=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
> > 
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