> how would i pass a <xsl:variable> to a jsp variable??

What exactly do you mean?
I assume you are generating JSP pages via XSL. In that case you simply
generate JSP variables and initalize them with xsl:value-of, e.g.

...
	public string name = <xsl:value-of select="name"/>;
...

That's what you thought of?


Best regards
chris