JSTL (Jakarta Standard Tag Library) is a XML based standard tag library which offers <c:xxx> tags to control the flow in a Facelets or JSP page, <fmt:xxx> tags for date/number formatting and internationalization facilities and several ${fn:xxx()} utility EL functions. Note that JSTL also offers SQL and XML taglibs which enable a declarative manner of executing SQL queries and parsing XML inside a
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