On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, yilmaz wrote:
> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 11:18:29 +0800
> From: yilmaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: the order of the tags in web.xml file
>
> Hi all, can anyone tell me where i can find a piece of doc about
> the order of the tags in a web.xml file. For a while i have been trying
> to use different combinations of those tags but still i couldn't figure out
> the right order. I searched archives, FAQs , even
> http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd but couldn't find anything about
> that.
> how are we supposed to know the correct order of those tags? Without that,
> i can't get my tomcat 4 server worked.
> Let me make my problem more clear:
> i want to set some security constraints on my directories,so i need to set
> <security-constraints> tags, but whenever i try i am having parsing
> exceptions due
> to inproper ordering of those tags. In a more straightforward saying,
> where should <security-constraints> tags be put, before -or -after mime
> types,
> sesion-config,login config, etc.
> Please help me as soon as possible.
> Best Regards :)
>
>
The DTD *does* tell you exactly what the required order is ... but you do
have to know how to read it :-)
Near the top of the DTD, you will see the following definition for the
<web-app> element:
<!ELEMENT web-app (icon?, display-name?, description?, ...
which defines exactly the required order, as well as whether an element
is optional ("?" suffix) or can occur zero or more times ("*" suffix).
The same is true for elements with nested sub-elements like <servlet>.
For those that are interested, the detailed syntax and semantics of an XML
DTD are defined in the XML Specification at <http://www.w3c.org>.
Craig McClanahan
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