Index: test/org/apache/taglibs/standard/tag/el/xml/Test30068.java
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--- test/org/apache/taglibs/standard/tag/el/xml/Test30068.java	(revision 0)
+++ test/org/apache/taglibs/standard/tag/el/xml/Test30068.java	(revision 0)
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+/*
+ * Copyright 1999,2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.taglibs.standard.tag.el.xml;
+
+import javax.servlet.jsp.*;
+import org.apache.cactus.*;
+import org.apache.taglibs.standard.testutil.TestUtil;
+
+public class Test30068 extends JspTestCase {
+
+    public Test30068(String name) {
+        super(name);
+    }
+
+    protected void setUp() throws Exception {
+        super.setUp();
+    }
+
+    protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
+        super.tearDown();
+    }
+
+    public void test30068() throws Exception {
+        String toInclude = TestUtil.getTestJsp(this);
+        pageContext.include(toInclude);
+
+        String correct = (String) pageContext.getAttribute("correct", PageContext.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
+        String incorrect = (String) pageContext.getAttribute("incorrect", PageContext.APPLICATION_SCOPE);
+
+        assertEquals("The incorrect answer is not an empty string", "", incorrect);
+        assertEquals("The correct answer would be 42", "42", correct);
+    }
+}
Index: test/web/org/apache/taglibs/standard/tag/el/xml/Test30068.xml
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--- test/web/org/apache/taglibs/standard/tag/el/xml/Test30068.xml	(revision 0)
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<sample>
+  <text>42</text>
+</sample>
Index: test/web/org/apache/taglibs/standard/tag/el/xml/Test30068.jsp
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--- test/web/org/apache/taglibs/standard/tag/el/xml/Test30068.jsp	(revision 0)
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %>
+<%@ taglib prefix="x" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/xml" %>
+
+<x:parse var="sample">
+<sample>
+  <link href="/org/apache/taglibs/standard/tag/el/xml/Test30068.xml"/>
+</sample>
+</x:parse>
+
+<x:forEach select="$sample/sample/link">
+  <c:set var="link">
+    <x:out select="@href"/>
+  </c:set>
+
+  <c:import url="${link}" varReader="r2">
+    <x:parse var="sample2" doc="${r2}"/>
+  </c:import>
+
+  <!-- *** this does not work *** -->
+  <c:set var="correct" scope="application"><x:out select="$sample2/sample/text"/></c:set>
+
+  <!-- this does work, but is not correct -->
+  <c:set var="incorrect" scope="application"><x:out select="$sample2/text"/></c:set>
+
+</x:forEach>
+
+<!-- for manual testing -->
+Correct: ${correct}<br/>
+Incorrect: ${incorrect}