Hi Vidar

As you are using the jar locally, try this

in web.xml:
<taglib>
  <taglib-uri>datetime</taglib-uri>
  <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/datetime.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

in WEB-INF/datetime.tld:
<uri>datetime</uri>

in your jsp:
<%@ taglib uri="datetime" prefix="dt" %>

Cheers
Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: Vidar Langberget [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 16 May 2001 10:13
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Datetime taglib


Hi

I'm having problems with the Datetime taglib. I have put the datetime.jar
file in the WEB-INF/lib/ directory, and the datetime.tld file in the WEB-INF
directory. I have created a Web.xml file containing:

<taglib>
  <taglib-uri>http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/datetime</taglib-uri>
  <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/datetime.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>


I've tried altering the uri to other things, and the line below that I put
in the actual jsp file:

<%@ taglib uri="http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/datetime"; prefix="dt" %>

but nothing works. This is the error message I get:
org.apache.jasper.compiler.CompileException:
/var/www/lillesand/date_test.jsp(0,0) Unable to open taglibrary
http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/datetime : Parse Error in the tag library
descriptor: Illegal character at end of document, <.
        at
org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspParseEventListener.handleDirective(JspParseEve
ntListener.java:713)
        at
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DelegatingListener.handleDirective(DelegatingList
ener.java:116)
        at
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser$Directive.accept(Parser.java:215)
        at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:1070)
        at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:1035)
        at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Parser.parse(Parser.java:1031)
        at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:182)
        at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.doLoadJSP(JspServlet.java:453)
        at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JasperLoader12.loadJSP(JasperLoader12.java:146)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.loadJSP(JspServlet.java:424)
        at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.loadIfNecessary(JspSe
rvlet.java:152)
        at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.ja
va:164)
        at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:309)
        at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:382)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:387)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:263)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:371)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:78
6)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:732)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection
(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:166)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:407)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:498)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)


regards,

Vidar

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