parsing web.xml error when deploying

[dwightsmith]

when trying to deploy an ejb/web application I get an
"org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "web-app" is not declared." error.

Am I missing a tag definition file or is this a deprecated tag? The web.xml file I am using is pretty straight forward and is a modified version of the one in the "interest" example:

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

<web-app>

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>PartySearchMain.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

<!-- ### EJB References (java:comp/env/ejb) -->
<ejb-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/Parties</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Entity</ejb-ref-type>
org.jboss.docs.parties.PartiesHome
org.jboss.docs.parties.Parties
</ejb-ref>

</web-app>

Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks.

Dwight

[emdevlin]

Hey,
You need
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2.2.dtd">
between
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app>

Also be the default parser is very persnickety about ordering it has to be just like in the dtd.

Hope it helps
Eric