Make a String variable equal to a Taglib value

Hi,
I'm using XMLTextReader to parse an XML file. During this I need to test to see if an attribute name of an Element is equal to "domain". I can't seem to work out how to insert the taglib value into my code, and I am starting to think it's not possible to do it the way I would like to. The general idea is this:
<sax:XMLTextReader xmlData="/home/thomaswebb/SMSToolRenderers/web/surveys/button.xml">
<sax:ifNameEquals name="survey"><b></sax:ifNameEquals>
<sax:Attributes>
<%
if ("domain".equalsIgnoreCase(<sax:getAttributeName/>)) {
%><sax:getAttributeValue/><%
//if (domain.length() == 0)
//domain =
%>
</sax:Attributes>
<sax:ifNameEquals name="price"></b></sax:ifNameEquals>
</sax:XMLTextReader>
Any help would be much apprecieted,
Thomas

Ah, I remember you.
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5267710
You've been told to read the API before.
At least you should show some effort. In your post state, I read the API and I tried this method or that method but it didn't work because of so and so. Otherwise, you may appear lazy, and that just won't do.
Edited by: petes1234 on Feb 24, 2008 7:38 AM

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