Exception in jsp: The content of elements must consist of well

[Happy S Singh]

Below is my jsp , when I add total attribute to display:column I get below exception

    Caused by: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: ServletException in '/jsp/frm_Rslt.jsp': /jsp/frm_Rslt.jsp(5,2) The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.

frm_Rslt.jsp

<jsp:root version="1.2" xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" xmlns:display="urn:jsptld:http://displaytag.sf.net">
      <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    
    <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld" prefix="logic"%>
    <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>
    <%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld" prefix="bean" %>
      
    
    <%AppUtil oAppUtil=new AppUtil();%>
    <jsp:useBean id="realTimeIssuance" scope="session" class="com.actionform.afRealTimeIssuance"></jsp:useBean>
    
    
    <display:table name="realtimereportcol" export="true" pagesize="25" sort="list" id="data" requestURI="" class="tablelist" decorator="org.displaytag.decorator.TotalTableDecorator">
    		<display:setProperty name="export.csv" value="false"/>
            <display:setProperty name="export.xml" value="false"/>
            <display:setProperty name="export.excel.filename">RealTimeIssuance_<%=oAppUtil.getSystemDateTime()%>.xls</display:setProperty>
    		
    		<display:column title="SUB_CHANNEL" sortable="true" property="sub_channel" group="1"></display:column>
    		<display:column title="AGENT_NAMES" sortable="true" property="agent_names"></display:column>
    		<display:column title="FTD" sortable="true" property="ftd" total="true"></display:column>
    		<display:column title="MTD" sortable="true" property="mtd" total="true"></display:column>
    		<display:column title="QTD" sortable="true" property="qtd" total="true"></display:column>
    		
    
    </display:table>

[Bear Bibeault]

Are you using .jspx format? If so, why? That's not intended to be used for hand coding.