Order significant in deployment descriptor

[Sekhar Kadiyala]

I have read somewhere that order of elements is significant in deployment descriptor.
Is that information available on net? Can someone please send me a link to that?

Also, where can i go browse the 1.3 related JSP and Servlet specifications?

Thnaks in advance!

[Kathy Sierra]

The order of elements sometimes *is* significant in 1.3, but does *not* matter with 1.4.

[Sekhar Kadiyala]

Thank you, Kathy.

Would it be fair, if i assume that the web-app element definition thats given in dtd contains the order?

<!ELEMENT web-app (icon?, display-name?, description?, distributable?,
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*)>

Can we assume this order?

[Lakshmi Rama]

Originally posted by Sekhar Kadiyala:
Thank you, Kathy.

Would it be fair, if i assume that the web-app element definition thats given in dtd contains the order?

<!ELEMENT web-app (icon?, display-name?, description?, distributable?,
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*)>

Can we assume this order?

The order defined in DTD should be taken into consideration. Becoz thats a basic XML rule. The order in which the elements appear in the ELEMENT TAG should be obeyed by the xml documents uses that DTD for validation.

Kathy can you give reason for the order applied in 1.3 and not in 1.4.

IF web.xml of scwcd 1.4 follows a specific dtd. It has to follow the xml rules correct ?

Thanks,

RAMA.

[Bryan Basham]

Originally posted by Lakshmi Rama:

The order defined in DTD should be taken into consideration. Becoz thats a basic XML rule. The order in which the elements appear in the ELEMENT TAG should be obeyed by the xml documents uses that DTD for validation.

This statement is true about an XML file using a DTD for validation, but this is not necessarily true for an XML file that uses a Schema for validation.

Kathy can you give reason for the order applied in 1.3 and not in 1.4.

The web-app XML structure in servlet v2.4 (J2EE v1.4) uses a Schema in which the order of the elements is not validated. Therefore, the XML parsers for the DD do not validate order.
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HTH,
Bryan

[Lakshmi Rama]

Originally posted by Bryan Basham:


HTH,
Bryan

Thank you Bryan...

Your answers definitely helped me understand the difference better.

[Nicholas Cheung]

In Servlet 2.3, the scheme is defined using DTD, which is order dependent.

In Servlet 2.4, the scheme is defined using XSD, which is order independent.

Nick