Hi Heiko,
The ordering is required because the DTD for the web specifier requires it:
<!--
The web-app element is the root of the deployment descriptor for a web
application
-->
<!ELEMENT web-app (icon?, display-name?, description?, distributable?,
context-param*, servlet*, servlet-mapping*, session-config?,
mime-mapping*, welcome-file-list?, error-page*, resource-ref*,
security-constraint*, login-config?, security-role*, env-entry*,
ejb-ref*)>
So this is not a bug - just the specified behavior.
---Allan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Heiko Gottschling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 7:47 AM
Subject: web.xml parsing bug in Tomcat3.1 (custom tag libs) ???
> Hi,
>
> you may (or may not) have noticed my posting some days ago regarding a
> problem with Tomcat3.1 and a custom tag library. Since no one solved
> this problem, I had to solve it myself. Here's what I found out:
>
> When using a custom tag lib, Tomcat obviously insists on a certain order
> of tags in the web.xml file. Tags must appear in this order:
>
> <servlet>
> <servlet-mapping>
> <taglib>
>
> Any deviation of this order yields an error when calling the JSP page.
>
> The error can easily be reproduced with the web.xml file of the example
> webapp provided with tomcat. Re-arranging the order of tags within that
> file breaks the "simpletag" example. (The JSP file must be compiled anew
> after making the change to view the effect).
>
> Error message:
>
> >Unable to open taglibrary http://java.apache.org/tomcat/examples-taglib :
> >Parse Error in the tag library descriptor: Element "web-app" does not
allow
> >"servlet-mapping" here.
>
> I have only checked for this error in conjuction with tag libs, so I
> don't know if it occurs otherwise, too.
>
> Is this a real bug, or is the order of tags in web.xml specified
> anywhere (can't imagine that's the case, though)?
>
> cu
> Heiko
>
>
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