On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Mark R. Diggory wrote:
> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:18:57 -0400
> From: Mark R. Diggory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tag Libraries Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Tag Libraries Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Can't deploy Custom Tag Library on Microsoth Windoz
>
> >
> >
> >If you access your XML parser through the JAXP APIs (which Tomcat does for
> >its own use), there is a standard and portable mechanism for selecting the
> >parser implementation to be used -- see the JAXP specification for
> >details.
> >
> >
> >Craig McClanahan
> >
> >
> >
> No, this has to strictly deal with default tomcat installation startup
> and what it uses as a default when loading taglibraries. Not with which
> parser I prefer to use in a particular webapplication.
>
You can configure the parser Tomcat itself uses by setting up
jaxp.properties in $CATALINA_HOME/server/classes (or in a jar file in
server/lib).
> If I setup my taglibrary Jar with
>
> /META-INF/taglib.tld
>
> and configure my web.xml file to load from the Jar file.
>
> <taglib>
> <taglib-uri>/thedata-taglib-validation-0.1</taglib-uri>
> <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/lib/Validation.jar</taglib-location>
> </taglib>
>
> Then the default installations of Tomcat versions 4.0.3, 4.0.5, 4.1 all
> fail to load the taglib because of the following error:
>
> PARSE error at line 1 column -1
> > >> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character conversion error: "Malformed
> > >> UTF-8 char
> > >> -- is an XML encoding declaration missing?" (line number may be too
> > >> low).
>
> This seems to happen on windows and not linux.
>
> I've tried numerous encodings in my tld file, it always says UTF-8 even when I'm not
>encoded in UTF-8. It was pointed out that this is a bug in an old version of Xerces.
>But, when I install LE versions, I'm not using Xerces, I'm using the default Crimson
>parser in j2sdk 1.4.
>
> When I pull my tld's out of the Jar files reference the external copies in web.xml
>everything loads ok, so it looks like it is definitly a problem in some Jar
>URLConnection...
>
> -Mark
>
> p.s. I'm not trying to just get an installation to work, I want my users to just be
>able to download tomcat, install it out of the box and install my taglibray jar. I
>want them to reference the "jar" in the web.xml and not the tld file and I want it
>work an all versions of Tomcat 4.0 thru 4.1 tested on both Windows and Linux.
>
Works for me with no problems on all 4.0.x and 4.1.x versions of Tomcat;
but I'm not trying to use any UTF-8 characters in my TLDs either.
Craig
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