JSTL

Preface1 Introduction 1.1 What Exactly Is the JSTL? 1.2 Why a JSP Standard Tag Library? 1.3 Why Now? 1.4 Why You Really Want to Use the JSTL 1.5 The Need for Encapsulation 1.6 Functional Overview 1.7 JSTL Tag Libraries 1.8 Getting Ready to Use the JSTL 1.9 The Road to the JSTL 1.9.1 Dynamic vs. Static Content 1.9.2 Using Dynamic Content 1.9.3 Using Dynamic Web Features 1.9.4 Server-Side Processing 1.10 Servlets to the Rescue 1.11 Hello My Friend Servlet 1.12 JavaServer Pages 1.13 When a JSP, When a Servlet? 1.14 Evolving JSP 1.15 Custom Actions in Action 1.15.1 Why Use a Custom Action 1.15.2 Hello My Friend Using Custom Actions 1.15.3 The TLD File 1.15.4 The Tag Handler 1.16 The Power of Tag Libraries 1.16.1 Need for a Tag Library 1.17 Making Life Easier, JSTL in Action2 JSTL Basics 2.1 Environment Setup 2.2 Using the Book Examples 2.3 JSP Scopes 2.4 JSTL Scoped Variables 2.4.1 Var and Scope Attributes 2.4.2 Variable Visibility 2.5 Dynamic and Static Attributes 2.6 Handling Errors and Exceptions 2.7 Action Body Content 2.8 Configuration Settings 2.9 The Config Class 2.10 Summary3 Using the Expression Language 3.1 Implicit Objects Available in the EL 3.2 Accessing Data Structures 3.3 EL Operators 3.3.1 Relational Operators 3.3.2 Other Operators 3.3.3 Using Operators 3.4 Automatic Type Conversion 3.5 Default Values 3.6 Summary4 Working with the Core Actions 4.1 Writing Output to the JspWriter 4.2 Setting Variables 4.3 Removing Variables 4.4 Using 4.4.1 Handling Exceptions 4.5 Decisions, Decisions, Decisions-Conditional Actions 4.5.1 Simple Conditional 4.5.2 Mutually Exclusive Conditionals 4.5.3 Creating Custom Logic Actions 4.6 Handling Iterators 4.6.1 4.6.2 Paging through a Large Collection 4.6.3 Looping with a Collection 4.6.4 Tokenizing Data Using 4.7 URL-Related Actions 4.7.1 4.7.2 4.7.3 Creating and Using Dynamic Links 4.7.4 4.7.5 4.8 Untangling the Web We Weave 4.8.1 The Power of 4.8.2 and the Composite View Pattern 4.8.3 Storing Imported Content 4.8.4 Using Character Encoding 4.9 Redirecting 4.10 Summary5 Working with the XML Actions 5.1 Overview of Supporting Technologies 5.2 eXtensible Markup Language (XML) 5.2.1 Using XML Files for Data Storage 5.2.2 XML APIs 5.3 eXtenstible Stylesheet Language (XSL) 5.3.1 Allowing for Transformation 5.3.2 XSL Languages 5.4 XML Path Language (XPath) 5.4.1 Library Functions 5.5 Variable Mappings 5.6 Using the Select Attribute 5.7 Accessing Resources 5.7.1 Node Types 5.7.2 Node Functions 5.8 eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) 5.8.1 XSLT Namespace 5.9 Parsing XML Documents 5.9.1 Action 5.9.2 Filtering 5.9.3 Using the Advanced Attributes 5.10 Using and 5.10.1 Action 5.10.2 Action 5.11 and in Action 5.12 Using XML Documents to Determine Flow Control 5.12.1 Action 5.12.2 Using 5.12.3 , , and Actions 5.13 Going Loopy with 5.13.1 Nested forEach Loops 5.14 XML Transformation Actions 5.14.1 Action 5.15 Transforming Content 5.16 Providing Parameters to Transformations 5.16.1 Action 5.16.2 Performing Multiple Transformations 5.17 Summary6 Working with the Internationalization and Formatting Actions 6.1 Locales 6.1.1 Internationalization vs. Localization 6.2 Why be Language Independent? 6.