JSP + XML

cyberwit · 27-04-2009 04:18PM #1

I have a jsp calling a string variable called result inside result i have and xml syntax how do i format (parse) the xml in the string variable

the xml elements are not showing in the jsp page however here is what is stored in vairiable

<?xml version="1.0"?><Travel 2.0><TripID>23</TripID><Description>Describe trip!!</Description><DateFrom>04-05-09</DateFrom><DateTo>06-05-09</DateTo><Reason>Reason for trip!!</Reason><Dept>Computing</Dept><EmpNum>20016523</EmpNum></Travel 2.0>

jsp




<%@ page errorPage="errorpage.jsp" language="java" import="java.util.*,ie.travel.webservice.clients.*,ie.travel.servlets.*,travel.travelbeans.*" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%><html>
	

<head>
 <%
	HttpSession mySession = request.getSession(true);
    TripBean triphistory = (TripBean)mySession.getAttribute("TripHistory");
%>
  <jsp:useBean id="TripHistory" class="travel.travelbeans.TripBean" scope="session" >
 
  </jsp:useBean>  
 
  <jsp:setProperty name="TripHistory" property="*" /> 
   
  <%mySession.setAttribute("TripHistory",triphistory);%>
	<title>Travel 2.0: Trip</title>
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="../style.css" type="text/css"/>
</head>

<body>
	<div id="wrapper">
		<div id="header">
			<h1><img src="../images/TravelBanner.gif"></h1>	
		</div>
		<div id="headline">
			</div>
	
		<div id="body">
			<div id="body-left">
				<div class="green" >
  <div id="slatenav" style="center: 900px; width: 700px; top: 10px">
	<ul>
	<li><a href="index.html" title="Homepage">Homepage</a></li>
	<li><a href="trip.html" title="Trip">Trip</a></li>
	<li><a href="subsistence.html" title="Subsistence">Subsistence</a></li>
	<li><a href="administration.html" title="Administration">Administration</a></li>
	<li><a href="utilities.html" title="Utilities">Utilities</a></li>
    <li><a href="about.html" title="about">About</a></li>
	</ul>
  </div>
</div>
<p>			
	</div>
	<div id="body-right3">
	<center>
	<p>
	<p>
          <div id="stylized" class="myform" >
          <%
            TripClient tripclient = new TripClient();
            String Result = tripclient.getTripRecord(TripHistory);
          %>

<h1>Web Service Entry Confirmation</h1>
<p> Employee <b>${TripHistory.tripid}</b></p>

<center><b><%=Result%><b></center>
</div>
<div class="spacer"></div>

</div>
    </center>
</div>
<div id="body-right2">
		<div class="arrowgreen" align="left">
	<ul>
		<li><a href="createtrip.jsp" title="Create Trip">Create Trip</a></li>
		<li><a href="triphistory.jsp" title="Trip History">Trip History</a></li>
		<li><a href="removetrip.jsp" title="Remove Trip">Remove Trip</a></li>
	</ul>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

marco_polo · 27-04-2009 11:57PM

This will escape the xml tags so the browser does not try to display them

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>

 ......
<c:out value="${Result}" />

The output will not be pretty, just whatever is in the string, but I gather what you want is just to display the raw xml?

cyberwit · 28-04-2009 01:19AM

I want to format the result so the results look good to the screen one i use the code u suggested can i then use css

hussey · 28-04-2009 01:26AM

cyberwit wrote: »

I want to format the result so the results look good to the screen one i use the code u suggested can i then use css

yes, but you need to link it to the css
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_display.asp

marco_polo · 28-04-2009 09:59AM

I would have said no, you would have to use XSLT to format the XML. You learn something new everyday.

But if the CSS method hussey suggests works ok then that will make it alot easier.

If you cannot get the CSS method working this code sample shows how to use a basic XSLT Tramsformation in a JSP page (Basic XSLT has a small learning curve but it is not too complicated).

http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/JSP/JSPXMLandXSLTtransform.htm

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