I tried another approach: <xtags:variable id="menu" select="<xpath expression>"/> <jsp:useBean id="menu" type="String"/>
and it didn't work again... At the begining of the file i have: String menu = null; and using the lines above it gives the following error: Variable 'menu' is already defined in this method. It's kind of weird... -----Original Message----- From: Shawn Bayern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: quarta-feira, 21 de Agosto de 2002 14:06 To: Tag Libraries Users List Subject: RE: How to get a <xtags:valueOf.../> value On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Carlos Barroso wrote: > Thanks very much for the help. Where can i get JSTL to work with xtags? You can download our JSTL implementation from http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-taglibs/releases/standard/ Then, once you follow the instructions in the package to install JSTL into your web application, simply include <%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/core" %> at the top of your page in addition to the XTags <%@ taglib %> declaration. Once you do that, you'll be able to use the syntax I suggested. Note that JSTL provides an XML-manipulation tag library; you might consider using that instead of XTags. (Note that JSTL requires a JSP 1.2 container, while XTags continues to run successfully on the old JSP 1.1.) One advantage of switching to JSTL is that you can be sure the tags are supported on every container, and individual containers can recognize the tags and optimize their implementations. -- Shawn Bayern "JSTL in Action" http://www.jstlbook.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>