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Use JSTL to output and extract XML element with XPATH
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<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/xml" prefix="x" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>xml actions</title>
</head>
<body>
This example uses XPath and the x:out action to extract the
user's name from a piece of XML.
<p/>
<c:set var="someXML">
<person>
<name>Ruth</name>
<age>29</age>
</person>
</c:set>
<x:parse var="parsedDocument" xml="${someXML}" />
The person's name is <x:out select="$parsedDocument//name" />
</body>
</html>
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