We're building an app with JBoss 4.2 + Seam 2.1 + RichFaces 3.2.2.GA. Profiling has pointed the finger at TIDY parsing as a performance bottleneck in our app so after some Documentation and Forum reading, I decided to put the following in our app's web.xml file:

<context-param>
 <param-name>org.ajax4jsf.xmlparser.ORDER</param-name>
 <param-value>NONE,NEKO</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <context-param>
 <param-name>org.ajax4jsf.xmlparser.NONE</param-name>
 <param-value>.*\.xhtml|.*\.seam</param-value>
 </context-param>

The intention of this is to have no parsing of *.xhtml or *.seam files and use the NEKO parser for everything else.

However, when I access the home page of our app (home.seam), logging includes things like this:

2008-12-10 13:27:53,106 DEBUG [org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter] create HTML/XML parser for content type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
2008-12-10 13:27:53,356 DEBUG [org.ajax4jsf.io.parser.FastHtmlParser] Parser reached state is StateManager.LT
2008-12-10 13:27:53,356 DEBUG [org.ajax4jsf.io.parser.FastHtmlParser] Parser reached state is StateManager.EXCLAM
2008-12-10 13:27:53,356 DEBUG [org.ajax4jsf.io.parser.FastHtmlParser] Parser reached state is StateManager.DOCTYPESTART

... lots more like this

2008-12-10 13:27:53,497 DEBUG [org.ajax4jsf.io.parser.FastHtmlParser] Parser reached state is StateManager.LT
2008-12-10 13:27:53,497 DEBUG [org.ajax4jsf.io.parser.FastHtmlParser] Parser reached state is StateManager.ELEMENT
2008-12-10 13:27:53,497 DEBUG [org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseXMLFilter] Parsing html total time 375ms
2008-12-10 13:27:53,497 DEBUG [org.ajax4jsf.webapp.BaseFilter] Finished request processing total time 7234ms for uri: /home.seam

which suggests to me that our home page is still being parsed by the NEKO parser.

Then I tried to turn off parsing for everything using this:

 <context-param>
 <param-name>org.ajax4jsf.xmlparser.ORDER</param-name>
 <param-value>NONE</param-value>
 </context-param>

 <context-param>
 <param-name>org.ajax4jsf.xmlparser.NONE</param-name>
 <param-value>.*</param-value>
 </context-param>

but I get exactly the same log output.

I suspect that either I'm totally misunderstanding how this works, or else (less likely) something's broken.

Note, I've posted a topic on the Seam forum: http://www.seamframework.org/Community/Ajax4jsfFilterHowToTweakItInSeam21#comment54499 which overlaps this one somewhat but covers some Seam-specific aspects. I apologise to anyone inconvenienced by any cross-posting issues.