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<x:transform> Tag

The <x:transform> tag applies XSL to an XML document.

Syntax

&lt;x:transform
   var="<string>"
   scope="<string>"
   result="<string>"
   doc="<string>"
   docSystemId="<string>"
   xslt="<string>"
   xsltSystemId="<string>"/>

Attributes

The <x:transform> tag has the following attributes:

Attribute	Description	Required	Default Value
doc	Source XML document	No	Body
docSystemId	URI of the source XML document	No	None
xslt	XSLT stylesheet	Yes	None
xsltSystemId	URI of the source XSLT document	No	None
result	Object to receive the transformation result	No	Print to page
var	Variable representing the transformed XML document	No	Print to page
scope	Scope of the var attribute	No	None

Example

style.xsl file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=
"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

&lt;xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>

&lt;xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <body>
   <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>

&lt;xsl:template match="books">
  <table border="1" width="100%">
    &lt;xsl:for-each select="book">
      <tr>
        <td>
          <i><xsl:value-of select="name"/></i>
        </td>
        <td>
          &lt;xsl:value-of select="author"/>
        </td>
        <td>
          &lt;xsl:value-of select="price"/>
        </td>
      </tr>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </table>
</xsl:template>

main.jsp file code:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"
    pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
<%@ 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>JSTL x:transform Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>Books Info:</h3>
&lt;c:set var="xmltext">
  <books>
    <book>
      <name>Padam History</name>
      <author>ZARA</author>
      <price>100</price>
    </book>
    <book>
      <name>Great Mistry</name>
      <author>NUHA</author>
      <price>2000</price>
    </book>
  </books>
</c:set>

&lt;c:import url="http://localhost:8080/style.xsl" var="xslt"/>
&lt;x:transform xml="${xmltext}" xslt="${xslt}"/>

</body>
</html>

The output is as follows:

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