The Relationship Between XML and JSP

Using JSP and XML together makes quite a bit of sense. JSP is all about character-based output and XML is all about character-based data; mixing the two together ends up producing a natural match. Simply understanding XML is not enough, because XML is about marking up the data, not about moving the data around. JSP allows us to move data into and out of an XML data source. To use XML successfully in a project, we must understand how to pull and push character data around within a JSP. Several common ways of using JSP and XML together are listed here:

  • The data is stored within an XML file. Using JSP, the data is imported and then converted to an HTML-based page to be viewed by a user with a browser.

  • The data ...

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