•	Table of Contents
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Core JSTL: Mastering the JSP™ Standard Tag Library
By David M. Geary
Publisher	: Prentice Hall PTR
Pub Date	: November 26, 2002
ISBN	: 0-13-100153-1
Pages	: 608
Slots	: 1

		Copyright
		About Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference
		Preface
			Section 1.1. What This Book Is About
			Section 1.2. The Servlet and JSP APIs This Book Depends Upon
			Section 1.3. The Book's Web Site
			Section 1.4. How This Book's Code Was Tested
			Section 1.5. This Book's Audience
			Section 1.6. How To Use This Book
			Section 1.7. Conventions Used in This Book
		Acknowledgments
		Chapter 1. Introduction
			Section 1.1. JSTL Overview
			Section 1.2. Getting Started
			Section 1.3. A Simple JSTL Web Application
			Section 1.4. JSTL Design Principles
		Chapter 2. The JSTL Expression Language
			Section 2.1. Expression Language Overview
			Section 2.2. Expressions
			Section 2.3. Identifiers
			Section 2.4. Operators
			Section 2.5. Type Coercion
			Section 2.6. Literal Values
			Section 2.7. Implicit Objects
			Section 2.8. Method Invocation
			Section 2.9. EL Expressions in Custom Actions
			Section 2.10. Common Mistakes
		Chapter 3. General-Purpose and Conditional Actions
			Section 3.1. General-Purpose Actions
			Section 3.2. Conditional Actions
			Section 3.3. Using Conditional and General-Purpose Actions Together
			Section 3.4. Conditional Custom Actions
		Chapter 4. Iteration Actions
			Section 4.1. The <c:forEach> Action
			Section 4.2. The <c:forTokens> Action
			Section 4.3. Iteration Status
			Section 4.4. Custom Iteration Actions
		Chapter 5. URL Actions
			Section 5.1. Overview
			Section 5.2. The <c:import> Action
			Section 5.3. The <c:redirect> Action
			Section 5.4. The <c:url> Action
			Section 5.5. The <c:param> Action
			Section 5.6. Accessing External Resources
			Section 5.7. Accessing Resources in Foreign Contexts
			Section 5.8. Redirecting a Response
		Chapter 6. Configuration Settings
			Section 6.1. Overview
			Section 6.2. The Config Class
		Chapter 7. I18N Actions
			Section 7.1. Overview
			Section 7.2. I18N and L10N
			Section 7.3. Localization Contexts
			Section 7.4. An Overview of the I18N Actions
			Section 7.5. Use of <fmt:message>
			Section 7.6. Request Encoding
			Section 7.7. I18NCustom Actions
		Chapter 8. Formatting Actions
			Section 8.1. Formatting and Parsing Numbers
			Section 8.2. Formatting and Parsing Dates and Times
			Section 8.3. Using Time Zones
			Section 8.4. Determining a Formatting Locale
		Chapter 9. Database Actions
			Section 9.1. Overview
			Section 9.2. A Simple Database
			Section 9.3. How JSTL Locates Data Sources
			Section 9.4. Creating Data Sources
			Section 9.5. Querying a Database
			Section 9.6. Updating a Database
			Section 9.7. Executing Database Transactions
			Section 9.8. Implementing Database Custom Actions
		Chapter 10. XML Actions
			Section 10.1. A Simple XML File
			Section 10.2. XML Actions Overview
			Section 10.3. XPath Overview
			Section 10.4. Parsing XML
			Section 10.5. Using Scoped Variables in XPath Expressions
			Section 10.6. Transforming XML with XSLT
			Section 10.7. Filtering XML
			Section 10.8. Accessing External Entities
		Chapter 11. JSTL Reference
			Section 11.1. Action Reference Index
			Section 11.2. General-Purpose Actions
			Section 11.3. Conditional Actions
			Section 11.4. Iteration Actions
			Section 11.5. URL Actions
			Section 11.6. Internationalization Actions
			Section 11.7. Formatting Actions
			Section 11.8. Database Actions
			Section 11.9. XML Core Actions
			Section 11.10. XML Flow Control Actions
			Section 11.11. XML Transform Actions
		Appendix Setting Up the MySQL Database Used in This Book
			Section A.1. Download and Install MySQL
			Section A.2. Download and Install a JDBC Driver for MySQL
			Section A.3. Create a MySQL Database for Core JSTL Examples
			Section A.4. Populate the MySQL Database Used in Core JSTL Examples
		Index