Question

Very simple question about jstl. Consider Map which return by Controller/Servlet. I would like to generate xml output for client. Should i use standard jstl tags or there is more elegant way to do it ?

Right now i created jsp with this text

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<response>
   <c:forEach var="entry" items="${msg}">
    <${entry.key}> 
      <![CDATA[${entry.value}]]>
     </${entry.key}>
   </c:forEach>
</response> 

It should work, but i believe there is better way to do it

Answer 1

When my response is XML I usually skip JSTL and use JAXB (i.e. write directly to output stream from servlet/controller).