Fail to load Simple XML

Question

Hi Guys,
Can any one help me loading a simple XML file into a Select list on JSP page. I found many examples but unable to load it the way I wanted it. I have a XML file with contents as;
<examples>
<example name='abc'>value here can be complete new xml document as well as a simple text and I want both to be shown in select list as 'text'</example>
<example name='def'>value here can be complete new xml document as well as a simple text and I want both to be shown in select list as 'text'</example>
<example name='ghe'>value here can be complete new xml document as well as a simple text and I want both to be shown in select list as 'text'</example>
</examples>
Now I want to parse this xml in my 'Select' HTML component in a way that I want the value of the element *<example>* (which can be a simple string or complete new XML (but I do not want to parse that XML and put it in a Select option as it is) and attribute name in each element/node as 'title' of the option in Select box just to provide some more info to user.
Let me know if you guys need more information on this.
Thanks,
SJunejo

Answer 1

There are many frameworks (castor, xmlbeans, jaxb etc) that helps you convert an xml to an object with corresponding properties. If you then place such an object in the proper scope, you can use a jsp (and jstl) easily to build your select tag.
Or you can do it all by yourself - use an api like dom and extract the data into String objects and build up your own data Container to hold multiple String text and once again use jsp/jstl to build your tag.
cheers,
ram.