JSTL, XML query

ph3n0m · January 25th, 2006, 01:37 PM

I have the following xml document

Code:

<item>
<title>Ali G Interviews The Beckhams</title>
<link>http://www.break.com/articles/aligbeckhams.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:25:27 CST</pubDate>
<description>Ali G Interviews The Beckhams</description>
<enclosure url="http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/content/aligbeckhams.jpg" type="image/jpeg" length="10000"/>
</item>

and am using the following to parse through it

Code:

<c:import var="xmlfile" url="http://www.break.com/rss/rss20.asp" />
<x:parse var="doc" xml="${xmlfile}"/>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellspacing="0">
<x:forEach select="$doc//item">
<tr><td><strong><a href='<x:out select="link"/>'><x:out select="title"/></a></strong><br>
<em><x:out select="pubDate"/></em><br>
<x:out select="description"/>
<c:out value="${enclosure}"/></td></tr>
</x:forEach>

My only problem is - how do I get the value for the xml tag "enclosure" since it is not in the same format as the others.

I have no control over this xml document as it is an external file - so no suggestions to change it over please :)

ph3n0m · January 26th, 2006, 08:11 AM

<x:out select="string(enclosure/@url)"/> - is how I pulled the url value out of the xml file, so my page now looks like this

<c:import var="xmlfile" url="url.link" />
<x:parse var="doc" xml="${xmlfile}"/>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellspacing="0">
<x:forEach select="$doc//item" end="9">
<tr><td><a href='<x:out select="link"/>'><x:out select="title"/></a> 
<x:out select="pubDate"/> 
<a href='<x:out select="link"/>'><img src='<x:out select="string(enclosure/@url)"/>' alt='<x:out select="title"/>' border='0'></a></td></tr>
<tr><td> </td></tr>
</x:forEach>

and it works perfectly