Got it. Thanks.
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:craigmcc@apache.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 3:11 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: DTD for server.xml??
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Turner, John wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 11:31:16 -0500
> > From: "Turner, John" <JTurner@AAS.com>
> > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> > To: "'tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org'"
> <tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org>
> > Subject: DTD for server.xml??
> >
> >
> > Hello -
> >
> > I notice that the top of web.xml has:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> > <!DOCTYPE web-app
> > PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
> > "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
> >
> > yet the top of server.xml has nothing.
> >
> > I'm very new to XML, so forgive me if this is a lame or FA
> question, but is
> > there a DTD for server.xml? If so, why isn't it specified
> in server.xml,
> > and what is the URL? Is server.xml "real, official XML" or just
> > "convenience" XML?
> >
>
> There is no DTD for server.xml because there cannot be.
>
> The problem is that server.xml is extensible -- for example,
> the set of
> attributes recognized by a <Valve> or <Context> element depends on the
> implementation class of the internal component that corresponds to it.
> The startup process uses Java reflection to match them up to property
> setters on the corresponding beans. There is no way to
> express this kind
> of thing in a DTD.
>
> Your server.xml is (and must be) "well formed" XML. It just cannot be
> validated.
>
> > - John
>
> Craig
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