Jboss AS 7.1.1Final fails to parse taglib.tld in random-1.0.2.jar

[dinabandhu]

Hi,

We are trying to deploy apache jetspeed 2.2.2 on jboss as 7.1.1Final. The startup fails complaining that the taglib.tld in random-1.0.2.jar is invalid.

I have validated the tld against the dtd using online validator at http://www.validome.org/xml/validate/ and the document is valid. Also the portal runs with Tomcat.

The TLD file is as follows

============================================================================================

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

<taglib>

  <tlibversion>1.0.2</tlibversion>

  <jspversion>1.1</jspversion>

  <shortname>random</shortname>

  <uri>http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/random-1.0</uri>

  <info>

     The Random tag library creates random strings and random numbers. You may

     specify a set of allowable characters as well as the length for randomly

     generated strings. You may specify a range of allowable integers or a

     random floating point number between zero and one for randomly generated

     numbers.  </info>

  <tag>

    <name>string</name>

    <tagclass>org.apache.taglibs.random.RandomStrgTag</tagclass>

    <teiclass>org.apache.taglibs.random.RandomStrgTEI</teiclass>

    <bodycontent>Empty</bodycontent>

    <attribute>

      <name>id</name>

      <required>yes</required>

      <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

    </attribute>

    <attribute>

      <name>length</name>

      <required>no</required>

      <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

    </attribute>

    <attribute>

      <name>map</name>

      <required>no</required>

      <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

    </attribute>

    <attribute>

      <name>charset</name>

      <required>no</required>

      <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

    </attribute>

    <attribute>

      <name>algorithm</name>

      <required>no</required>

      <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

    </attribute>

    <attribute>

      <name>provider</name>

      <required>no</required>

      <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

    </attribute>

  </tag>

  <tag>

    <name>number</name>

    <tagclass>org.apache.taglibs.random.RandomNumTag</tagclass>

    <teiclass>org.apache.taglibs.random.RandomNumTEI</teiclass>

    <bodycontent>Empty</bodycontent>

    <attribute>

      <name>id</name>

      <required>yes</required>

      <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

    </attribute>

    <attribute>

      <name>range</name>

      <required>no</required>

      <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

    </attribute>

    <attribute>

      <name>algorithm</name>

      <required>no</required>

      <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

    </attribute>

    <attribute>

      <name>provider</name>

      <required>no</required>

      <rtexprvalue>no</rtexprvalue>

    </attribute>

  </tag>

</taglib>

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I would appreciate any pointers very much.

Regards,

Dinabandhu

[nickarls]

Is there no info in the stacktrace on what the issue is? Usually it is some CAPS thing somewhere but strange if it passed the validator...

[sfcoy]

This tld is invalid:

{code:xml}<bodycontent>Empty</bodycontent>{code}

should be

{code:xml}<bodycontent>empty</bodycontent>{code}

XML is case sensitive.

Unfortunately, a DTD is not descriptive enough for a validator to be able to check the permitted content of an element.

[dinabandhu]

Hi,

Thank you for pointing this out. This indeed was the problem.

As pointed out by Nicklass I should have looked more closely at the error trace. It does indeed point to Empty. But I don't know anything about tag libraries and as it passed the validator I assumed (wrongly) that everything is ok with the tld.

Thanks again guys for helping out with this.

Regards,

Dinabandhu