Genereting JSTL tags with an XSLT transformation question

Question

Hi there!
I have some XML datas to display in a jsp file.
XML content is of this type:
<message>
<title>A message</title>
</message>
The most elegent way to present them is to transform XML via xslt into xhtml.
(that way I can externally change with ease the message formatting output without changing the jsp)
For that, I use the cool tag
<x:transform>
on each xml file i want to display (with x:foreEach)
The output produced for each xml file is:
<div class="message">
<h2>A message</h2>
</div>
My problem is now that I want to include custom tags in the generated content!
For exemple:
<div class="message">
<h2>A message<c:out ...></h2>
</div>
My question is:
how can I make that xslt generated tag to be executed???
Since it is the product of an xslt transformation ,I suppose it won't be executed at all...
Advices greatly appreciated! :)

Answer 1

I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you say "how can I make that xslt generated tag to be executed???"
You've got your XML input and the XSL-T stylesheet that will transform the XML input into an XHTML stream containing JSTL tags.
I'm assuming that you're going to ask a servlet to pass the XML input to the XSL transformer and get the XHTML output stream. Once you have that, the servlet will write the XHTML to the HTTP response output stream, where it'll be rendered by the browser.
I think the key is to make sure that you tell the browser that response type is a JSP (that's the only document type in which it makes sense to put JSTL tags). When the browser gets that JSP, it'll treat it like any other: generate .java code, compile that to a .class file, and then render.
I'm not sure about efficiency, but it sure is an elegant solution. - MOD