Use of <x:out> tag of JSTL

In this section we will learn how to use <x:out> tag of Xml tag library of Jstl. This tag is used to show the content as output for the given XPath expressions.

Standard Syntax : <%@ taglib prefix="x" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/xml" %>

Attributes:
select	Defines xPath expression.
escapeXml	Determines that some special characters in resulting string should be converted to their corresponding character entity codes or not. Its default value is true.

out_xmlJstlTag.jsp

<%@ 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>Example of x:out tag</title>
    </head>
    <body>        
        <c:import var="importFile" url="employee.xml"/>    
        <x:parse var="doc" doc="${importFile}"/>

        <table border=1>
            <tr>
                <th>Given Xml Document</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td><pre><x:out select="$importFile"/></pre></td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </body>
</html>

Output :

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