Hi,

i sense a slight misunderstanding of concepts here. XML is not a programming
language (well, at least not in my definition of a programming language),
it is more like a document description language. Therefore there is no way
to "pass information" from XML to a JSP via  a magic XML command. You will
need some XML parser (Xerces for instance), which you can use to parse the
XML file inside your JSP page and then grab the using the parser. Here is a
tutorial on that: http://totheriver.com/learn/xml/xmltutorial.html

Best regards,
Jan

Have a controller or a utility class parse the XML, set the values you
want to pass over to the JSP as request/session attributes and forward
to that JSP. In the JSP you can either use scriptlets or EL to access
those attributes.

-cheers,
Manish