FWIW, I think Mike Slinn has put up a web.xml validator (and other
useful tools/documentation) at
http://tomcat.mslinn.com/
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Robert Petersen wrote:
> It matters, and doesn't have to do with SAX vs. DOM, it's because
> of the DTD - check out this bit of the DTD:
> <!ELEMENT web-app (icon?, display-name?, description?, distribut-able?,
> context-param*, filter*, filter-mapping*, listener*, servlet*,
> servlet-mapping*,
> session-config?, mime-mapping*, welcome-file-list?, error-page*,
> taglib*, resource-env-ref*, resource-ref*, security-constraint*,
> login-config?,
> security-role*, env-entry*, ejb-ref*, ejb-local-ref*)>
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> This says that the "servlet-mapping" tags must follow all of the "servlet".
> Basically the
> tags must be in the order above.
>
> - Robert Petersen
> http://www.orangefood.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Draucker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 9:24 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: web.xml layout
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> Does anyone know if it makes any difference whether I group
> servlet contexts with servlet mappings or keep all contexts
> together and below them keep all mappings together.
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> Assuming the xml file is being processed by SAX, the
> callback handling would make this irrelevant I would think.
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> Thoughts?....
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> Thanks,
> Richard
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Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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