Error using JSTL XML taglib - attribute xml does not accept any expressions

Question

I\'m getting the following error when I try to use the JSTL XML taglib:

/server-side-transform.jsp(51,0) 
According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file,
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Answer 1

Not exactly, you should use

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>

to use JSTL 1.1.

Unfortunately the standard.jar files includes many versions of *.tld tag for eg.

• c-1_0-rt.tld
• c-1_0.tld
• c.tld
• fmt-1_0-rt.tld
• fmt-1_0.tld
• fmt.tld
• fn.tld
• permittedTaglibs.tld
• scriptfree.tld
• sql-1_0-rt.tld
• sql-1_0.tld
• sql.tld
• x-1_0-rt.tld
• x-1_0.tld
• x.tld

so by using

<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core"%>

you tell the jsp to specifically use JSTL 1.1 which btw fixes the above issue, if this does not work try using

<%@ page isELIgnored="false" %>

which basically tells jsp to evaluate EL.

/srm