Core JSTL: Mastering the JSP™ Standard Tag Library

Chapter 10. XML Actions

Topics in This Chapter

• A Simple XML File

• XML Actions Overview

• XPath Overview

• Using Scoped Variables in XPath Expressionss

• Parsing XML

• Transforming XML with XSLT

• Filtering XML

• Accessing External Entities

XML and the Java programming language—which represent portable data and portable code, respectively—are a powerful combination for developing portable Web applications that can freely share information.

XML, which stands for eXtensible Markup Language, is a meta-language that can be used to define markup languages, such as XHTML. XML lets you define a document's structure with extensible markup, meaning tags that you define; for example, see “A Simple XML File” on page 424, which uses XML to define the structure of a simple Rolodex ...