jstl xml variables for select attribute

Question

I'm using jstl xml to get specified values from an XML

Here I'm using a "userRoleSelector" as a variable to select the node. The variable is set as,

<c:set var="userRoleSelector" value="role-id='test'" scope='session'/>

The tag where I use the variable is as follows,

<x:if select="$parsedRoleXML//roles/role[$userRoleSelector]/features/feature[text()='viewEvents']">
        //html code
</x:if>

The node is not selected according to the role-id provided. it works if I use only the right hand side as a variable.

What is the issue here?

Answer 1

There are a few problems here:

• The XPath predicate syntax [$userRoleSelector] is not doing a comparison
• The XPath predicate syntax is searching for an index, not an attribute value
• userRoleSelector is not an XPath variable
• c:set variables are not in the XML scope, unlike x:parse variables
• userRoleSelector is a JSP variable

To test the role-id properly, try this instead:

[@role-id='test']

To test the JSP variable, try this instead:

[@role-id=$sessionScope:userRoleSelector]

References

• XPath: Variable Reference
• JSP - XML Data
• JSR-52: jstl-1_0-fr-spec.pdf