Eric,
Eric Suen wrote:
I didn't know that XML required internal document types to declare the root element.
see bug: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28207
seems tomcat guys like this stupid feature very much, even it is very easy add an option to disable those kind validation in production env. I think the validation is necessary in developing, but in production env, for performance, maybe we want to disable validation, I just dont understand why jsp 2.0 force us to validation the xml file even it can not do it well.
Thanks so much for this helpful link! First, the <jsp:output> element is really cool---no more <jsf:verbatim>!
Secondly, I think I see how this whole two-step process of translating character entities works---I need to define a character entity with the ampersand escaped.
Thirdly, if I can define a DOCTYPE for my entire JSP file and stick it away in a file and just reference it from all my JSPs, this would be ultra-cool:
* I could define all my doubly-escaped character entities that I now realize I need.
* I can even specify the root namespace declaration attributes as #FIXED, so that I never have to define them.
The little problem is that I don't understand why Tomcat is requiring that *every* element be defined---does XML require that, if an internal or external DTD is present, it must define each and every element in the document? I didn't think so---can't one have just an external DOCTYPE with only character entities defined?
If this is an XML requirement, then it's the way Tomcat should go. Now I need to track down the official JSF and JSP element DTDs, combine them in one file with my doubly-escaped character entities, and I'll be ready to go. (Something will probably come up, though.)
Hey, wait a minute---doesn't Tomcat already tell me if certain JSF and JSP tags don't have attributes that the DTD requires? Where is Tomcat getting *that* information---is it processing some DTD in the background? Will my custom DTD conflict? These questions and more will have to be answered after I get some sleep...
Garret
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