Eclipse web.xml formatting errors

[Dilshan Edirisuriya]

I have a sample web.xml like this.

  
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com
/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com
/xml/ns/javaee <a href="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
<a href="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"</a>" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"[/URL]</a> id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
  
  <display-name>test</display-name>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
  
</web-app>
 

But when I add that in eclipse sometime I get "The content of element type web-app must match icon? display-name ? etc." error message. When I create a new xml file and paste above text there it works. Once I restart the workbench it appears again. I do not see a problem with this web.xml file. What would be the reason? I am using eclipse ganymede.

Thank you

[ October 29, 2008: Message edited by: Dilshan Edirisuriya ]

[edited XML]
[ October 29, 2008: Message edited by: Jeanne Boyarsky ]

[Dilshan Edirisuriya]

Ohhhhh

The XML tags are missing in the above post. What is going on here. I cannot copy a xml document here. Look what has happened. Some of the xml data I pasted are missing and some of them are formatted incorrectly. When I click on edit button again I see the correct pasted data there.


[ October 29, 2008: Message edited by: Dilshan Edirisuriya ]

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Dilshan,
You need to escape the < as &lt;. I've edited your post to see the XML.

Your file seems ok. One thing to try is to add a space to the file and save. That might clear Eclipse's cache and get it to acknowledge the file is ok. This helped me with a different XML problem in the past.

[Dilshan Edirisuriya]

Thanks Jeanne.

I think it is better to have some sort of a editor component here. Like WYSIWYG. Otherwise we will be having a bad time typing here.

So about the issue, yes I think its something to do with the Eclipse cache. When I edit the file It works fine as you said. So any suggestion cos every time it is hard to edit like this.

Thank you

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Eric posted a tool to escape the HTML/XML for you:
http://faq.javaranch.com/java/EscapeHtml

I don't know what to say - report it to Eclipse as a bug?