RE: Very Basic Help

2002-07-09 Thread Shawn Bayern
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Martin Cooper wrote: > > The correct syntax for expression evaluation uses "${" to begin an > > expression and "$}" to end an expression. > > You mean "}" to end an expression. ;-) Indeed! See, when you write a book, you begin to depend on copy editors and technical proofer

RE: Very Basic Help

2002-07-09 Thread Martin Cooper
> -Original Message- > From: Shawn Bayern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:17 AM > To: Tag Libraries Users List > Subject: Re: Very Basic Help > > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Tim Ringwood wrote: > > > The tutorial has the line:

RE: Very Basic Help

2002-07-09 Thread Shawn Bayern
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Ben Ramsey wrote: > Should I switch to JSTL's XML-related tags, then? Will XTags > eventually phase-out like the XSL tag? I can't speak definitively about the future of XTags, but JSTL will certainly be more widely supported. You get the benefit of using a JCP standard when

RE: Very Basic Help

2002-07-09 Thread Ben Ramsey
Should I switch to JSTL's XML-related tags, then? Will XTags eventually phase-out like the XSL tag? In addition, I'm currently running Tomcat 3.2.3. Is is a JSP 1.2 container? I've tried to upgrade to version 4.0.4, but I don't have Glibc 2.2 for mod_webapp to work. (I'm running a Cobalt RaQ4r

RE: Very Basic Help

2002-07-09 Thread Shawn Bayern
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Ben Ramsey wrote: > If I were you, I'd look into using XTAGS. I had numerous problems > using the XSL 1.0 tag library to transform XML with XSL. Plus, > whenever I've looked for help with the XSL tag library, all sources > seem to point to using XTAGS instead. Indeed, the "

Re: Very Basic Help

2002-07-09 Thread Shawn Bayern
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Tim Ringwood wrote: > The tutorial has the line: > > Whichever tutorial you're looking at is out of date; the spec, and books like mine, O'Reilly's, and Prentice Halls will be up to date. (Several books were published against early draft specifications and are no longer co

RE: Very Basic Help

2002-07-09 Thread Peter . Burgess
-Original Message- From: Ben Ramsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 July 2002 16:36 To: Tag Libraries Users List Subject: RE: Very Basic Help If I were you, I'd look into using XTAGS. I had numerous problems using the XSL 1.0 tag library to transform XML with XSL. Plus, whe

RE: Very Basic Help

2002-07-09 Thread Ben Ramsey
If I were you, I'd look into using XTAGS. I had numerous problems using the XSL 1.0 tag library to transform XML with XSL. Plus, whenever I've looked for help with the XSL tag library, all sources seem to point to using XTAGS instead. I tried: But that gave me errors. Then, I tried: Still

Re: Very Basic Help

2002-07-09 Thread Tim Ringwood
Thanks for the help, but just got me stuck in another place. I'll only ask one more question and then I think I am going to flip burgers for a living because I just can't figure this out! All I am looking for a a very basic, and complete, Hello World example using XML and XSL with JSLT. My own

Re: Very Basic Help

2002-07-09 Thread Brian J. Sletten
> This also saves you the trouble of installing the TLDs manually in > WEB-INF. If you use the Jakarta Taglibs implementation and drop in > 'standard.jar' to WEB-INF/lib, then a JSP 1.2 container will notice the > TLDs automatically and map them to the absolute URIs. Interesting, I'd never looke

Re: Very Basic Help

2002-07-09 Thread Shawn Bayern
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Brian J. Sletten wrote: > Yes, you do need them. If you place them in the WEB-INF directory > (with the jar files in WEB-INF/lib), your taglib lines would look > like: > > <%@taglib uri="/WEB-INF/c.tld" prefix="c" %> > <%@taglib uri="/WEB-INF/x.tld" prefix="x" %> In general,

Re: Very Basic Help

2002-07-09 Thread Brian J. Sletten
Tim Ringwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Boy I am stuck. Easy to do. > The example below appears incomplete. > Don't I need a taglib line? And if so what are the > tagslibs I am suppose to be using for "c:" and "x:"? Yes, you do need them. If you place them in the WEB-INF directory (with the