Parsing Error in web.xml

[Harshada Deshmukh]

I have developed web application in Eclipse IDE and running application on weblogic8.1 I am facing error as follows

Deployment descriptor "web.xml" is malformed. Check against the DTD: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element 'web-app'. (line 2, column 10).>

could anybody help me for this

[Paul Sturrock]

Does you web.xml have a web-app element? If it does, is your web.xml file valid XML? Are all opening and closing brakets there?

[Harshada Deshmukh]

yes,all tags are correct. i think problem is related with dtd but i am not sure

[Akhilesh Trivedi]

Originally posted by harshada deshmukh:
...(line 2, column 10)...

[Sagar Rohankar]

May be you can post your web.xml file , and we figure out the problem !

or If you are using NetBeans, it provide the XML parser which checks your xml against the DTD ! I don't know about other IDE !

[Harshada Deshmukh]

This is my web.xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
"-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>basiclogging</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>be.fgov.minfin.training.log4jlogging.BasicLoggingServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>logging</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>be.fgov.minfin.training.log4jlogging.LoggingServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>basiclogging</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/basiclogging</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>logging</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/logging</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

[Amit Ghorpade]

Your web-app tag is invalid, it should look something like

<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="ht tp://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="ht tp://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="ht tp://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee ht tp://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">

I have deliberately put the space in http so that it is not displayed as a URL


Hope this helps
[ September 18, 2008: Message edited by: Amit Ghorpade ]

[Harshada Deshmukh]

Thanks for helping me!
My problem is resolved!
It was J2EE version problem while creating application in Eclipse and integerating with weblogic 8.1. Also I have done changes web.xml as

<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">

[kriti jain]

Please tell me how did you resolve this problem. I am facing the same problem. Please help me !