JavaServer Pages, Second Edition

Name

<x:forEach>

Synopsis

The <x:forEach> action evaluates its body once for each node in an XPath expression evaluation result, which sets the context node used by XPath expressions in nested actions to the current node. The current node can also be exposed to action elements in the body through a nested variable.

Syntax

<x:forEach select="XPathExpression" [var="var"]>
  JSP elements
</x:forEach>

Attributes

Attributename	Java type	Dynamic valueaccepted	Description
select	String	No	The XPath expression
var	String	No	The name of the nested variable holding the current element

Example

<x:forEach select="$doc//story">
  <x:out select="title/text( )" />
</x:forEach>