how to retrieve value of attribute of an xml element tag using jsp

[sweety sandy]

i have my student xml file
<students>
<student name="abc">
<college>pqr</college>
</student>
<student name="def">
<college>xyz</college>
</student>
</students>


please tell me how can i retrieve the value of an attribute name using java server pages

[Rob Spoor]

Use the XML JSTL tags:
<x:parse var="xmlDoc"> <!-- the name can be different if you want --> <!-- XML document goes here --> </x:parse> <x:forEach select="$xmlDoc/students/student/@name" var="name"> <!-- now do something with the name </x:forEach>Disclaimer: I haven't used the XML tags in a while, so there may be a few mistakes in there.

To get only the first student, use <x:set> instead of <x:forEach>.

[sweety sandy]

I need to work using JSP so can you please explain how to retrieve the attribute values using JSP

[Bear Bibeault]

sweety sandy wrote:I need to work using JSP so can you please explain how to retrieve the attribute values using JSP

What part of that do you think is not JSP?

[Rob Spoor]

Well, I did miss the closing tag of the third comment

[sweety sandy]

can you post the entire code

[Bear Bibeault]

sweety sandy wrote:can you post the entire code

Please read NotACodeMill

[tejaswini padharthi]

as the provided xml is a user defined you have to use any parser (example: SAX,DOM parser) to read the data in the xml elements and place these elements in an object. you can easily retrieve the data from the object use the needed data in your jsp.