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The <x:transform> tag

JSP Standard Tag Library

The <x:transform> tag applies XSL in the XML document.

Syntax format

<x:transform
   var="<string>"
   scope="<string>"
   result="<string>"
   doc="<string>"
   docSystemId="<string>"
   xslt="<string>"
   xsltSystemId="<string>"/>

Attribute

The <x:transform> tag has the following attributes:

AttributeDescriptionIs it necessaryDefault value
                doc                Source XML document                No                Body
                docSystemId                URI of the source XML document                No                None
                xslt                XSLT stylesheet                Yes                None
                xsltSystemId                URI of the source XSLT document                No                None
                result                The object that receives the conversion result                No                Print to page
                var                Represents the variable for the converted XML document                No                Print to page
                scope                The scope of the var attribute                No                None

Example demonstration

style.xsl file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=
"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <body>
   <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="books">
  <table border="1" width="100%">
    <xsl:for-each select="book">
      <tr>
        <td>
          <i><xsl:value-of select="name"/></i>
        </td>
        <td>
          <xsl:value-of select="author"/>
        </td>
        <td>
          <xsl:value-of select="price"/>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </table>
</xsl:template>

main.jsp file code is as follows:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
    pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
<%@ taglib prefix="x" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/xml" %>
<html>
<head>
  <title>JSTL x:transform Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Books Info:</h2>
<c:set var="xmltext">
  <books>
    <book>
      <name>Padam History</name>
      <author>ZARA</author>
      <price>100</price>
    </book>
    <book>
      <name>Great Mistry</name>
      <author>NUHA</author>
      <price>2000</price>
    </book>
  </books>
</c:set>
<c:import url="http://localhost:8080/style.xsl" var="xslt"/>
<x:transform xml="${xmltext}" xslt="${xslt}"/>
</body>
</html>

The running result is as follows:

JSP Standard Tag Library