Dynamic Web Sites with XML, XSLT and JSP (3/4) - exploring XML | WebReference

Dynamic Web Sites with XML, XSLT and JSP (3/4) - exploring XML

Dynamic Web Sites with XML, XSLT and JSP

Example

The link between the JSP and the XSLT stylesheet is the data. We defined a phonebook format in XML like so, and saved it under xslt/xml/book.xml:

<book>
	<phone>
		<name>Police</name>
		<number>110</number>
	</phone>
	<phone>
		<name>Fire Brigade</name>
		<number>112</number>
	</phone>
</book>

The following minimalist JSP will be used as a data source under xslt/book.jsp:

<%@taglib uri="https://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/xsl-1.0" prefix="xsl"%>
<html>
<head><title>Phone Book</title></head>
<body>
<xsl:InsertWithXSL xml="/xml/book.xml" xsl="/xml/book.xsl" />
</body>
</html>

The first line references the xsl taglib, and the xsl:InsertWithXSL directive invokes the XSLT processor and gets replaced with the resulting application of book.xsl on book.xml.

After the programmer's contributions comes the designer's work.

Produced by Michael Claßen

URL: https://www.webreference.com/xml/column37/3.html
Created: Aug 15, 2001
Revised: Aug 15, 2001