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This syntax notation summarizes these rules:
doctypeDecl:= (doctype-root-element="rootElement"
doctype-public="PublicLiteral"
doctype-system="SystemLiteral")
| (doctype-root-element="rootElement"
doctype-system="SystemLiteral")
Suppose that you want to reference a DTD, called books.DTD, from the output of the
books.jspx page. The DTD would look like this:
To add a document type declaration that references the DTD to the XML request output
generated from books.jspx, include this jsp:output element in books.jspx:
With this jsp:output action, the JSP container generates this document type declaration in the
request output:
Creating a JSP Document
The jsp:output need not be located before the root element of the document. The JSP
container will automatically place the resulting document type declaration before the start of
the output of the JSP document.
Note that the JSP container will not interpret anything provided by jsp:output. This means
that the JSP container will not validate the XML document against the DTD. It only generates
the document type declaration in the XML request output. To see the XML output, run
http://localhost:8080/books/books.jspx in your browser after you have updated
books.WAR with books.DTD and the jsp:output element. When using some browsers, you
might need to view the source of the page to actually see the output.
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