JSP Expressions That Are Not Well-formed?

[David Geary <sa...@tri-lakesonline.net>]

I'm trying to process an XML file with Xalan to produce a JSP file. My
XSL file looks like this:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
              version="1.0">

 <xsl:template match="/">
  ...
    <font size='5'>
       Inventory as of <%= new java.util.Date() %>
    </font><p>
  ...

When I try to process the XML file, I get the following error:

========= Parsing file:F:/books/jsp/src/xml/inventory_jsp.xsl ==========

file:F:/books/jsp/src/xml/inventory_jsp.xsl; Line 11; Column 65
XSL Error: Could not parse file:F:/books/jsp/src/xml/inventory_jsp.xsl
document!
XSL Error: processStylesheet not successful!
XSLT: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data
or mark up.
Xalan: was not successful.
XSLProcessor: done

The problem, of course, is that the JSP expression <%= java.util.Date %>
is not well formed.

How can I force that expression to be copied to the result tree? I tried
storing it in a variable, and I also tried specifying it with <xsl:text
disable-output-escaping="true">, but neither worked.

Thanks,


david