taglib.tld giving problems help!

[Nupur Gupta]

Hi,
I am using Jboss 3. Am writing a custom tag library. This is how my taglib.tld looks

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE taglib
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.2//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-jsptaglibrary_1_2.dtd" >

<taglib>

<tlibversion>1.0</tlibversion>
<jspversion>1.1</jspversion>
<shortname></shortname>
<tag>
<name>myTag</name>
<tagclass>tags.MyCustomTag</tagclass>
<bodycontent>empty</bodycontent>
<info>A Hello World tag</info>
</tag>
</taglib>

So when I put my war file in the jboss deploy directory, this is the server output I get -

11:51:53,859 INFO [MainDeployer] Starting deployment of package: file:/C:/jboss-3.0.3/server/default/deploy/t
ags.war
11:51:53,875 INFO [EmbeddedCatalinaServiceSX] deploy, ctxPath=/tags, warUrl=file:/C:/jboss-3.0.3/server/defau
lt/tmp/deploy/server/default/deploy/tags.war/87.tags.war
11:51:53,890 INFO [Engine] WebappLoader[/tags]: Deploying class repositories to work directory C:\jboss-3.0.3
\catalina\work\MainEngine\localhost\tags
11:51:53,890 INFO [Engine] WebappLoader[/tags]: Deploy class files /WEB-INF/classes to C:\jboss-3.0.3\catalin
a\work\MainEngine\localhost\tags\WEB-INF\classes
11:51:53,906 INFO [Engine] StandardManager[/tags]: Seeding random number generator class java.security.Secure
Random
11:51:53,906 INFO [Engine] StandardManager[/tags]: Seeding of random number generator has been completed
11:51:53,953 INFO [STDOUT] PARSE error at line 9 column -1
11:51:53,953 INFO [STDOUT] org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element "taglib" does not allow "tlibversion" here.

11:51:53,953 INFO [STDOUT] PARSE error at line 9 column -1
11:51:53,953 INFO [STDOUT] org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element "taglib" does not allow "tlibversion" here.

11:51:53,953 INFO [Engine] ContextConfig[/tags]: Added certificates -> request attribute Valve
11:51:54,031 INFO [EmbeddedCatalinaServiceSX] Using Java2 parent classloader delegation: true
11:51:54,031 INFO [Engine] StandardWrapper[/tags:default]: Loading container servlet default
11:51:54,031 INFO [Engine] StandardWrapper[/tags:invoker]: Loading container servlet invoker
11:51:54,046 INFO [MainDeployer] Deployed package: file:/C:/jboss-3.0.3/server/default/deploy/tags.war

So I try removing tlibversion and it says the tag jspversion is not allowed and so on..right down to <tag> not allowed. Please help!

Thanks

[Nupur Gupta]

I can't believe it, I got the answer from the net.. the problem was with the <!DOCTYPE> tag... it should read

<!DOCTYPE taglib
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag Library 1.1//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-jsptaglibrary_1_1.dtd">

and then it works.....

[Bear Bibeault]

Well, that's assuming you want to use the JSP 1,1 version of the TLD format.

I don't know what version of Tomcat you are using with JBoss, but your TLD should match the version of JSP.

If you are getting validations errors, learn to read a DTD so you can find out what the valid XML is! As of JSP 2.0, the DTD has been replaced with an XML Schema, so you should learn how to interpret those as well.