[David]

I have a struts application that I thought I wanted to add JSTL to so I had myEclipse add that functionality. But I changed my mind, so I manually deleted the c/fmt/fn/x/sql tld files that MyEclipse placed under the WEB-INF directory (it would be nice to have myEclipse remove the files it adds, but that is another post). When I deployed my app I get a whole nest of these:

Dec 14, 2005 8:43:47 PM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester error
SEVERE: Parse Error at line 6 column 17: Document root element “taglib”, must match DOCTYPE root “null”.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element “taglib”, must match DOCTYPE root “null”.
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.rootElementSpecified(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleStartElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$ContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1567)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScanStream(ContextConfig.java:928)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScanJar(ContextConfig.java:862)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScan(ContextConfig.java:809)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:587)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:181)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3523)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:774)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:760)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:548)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:260)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:741)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:512)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:354)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:671)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1149)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:707)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1141)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:316)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2143)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:463)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:350)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:129)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:156)

But I don’t know what is causing that. I did find a commons-lang.jar under a temp directory but I dont’ recall having placed it there. I am unable to view the jar file. No idea if its related or not, but thougth I better mention it.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

[Riyad Kalla]

I have a feeling you did more than just erase those TLD files, first let’s see what Digest is complaining about, what does your web.xml file look like?

Also, you can remove your jstl.jar and standard.jar files if you want to fully remove JSTL.

[David]

I removed those jar files with Project manager. The web.xml looks to be fine – at least it hasn’t changed in quite some time.

[David]

It would appear that the fix to this is to manually remocve the jstl.jar and standard.jar from the Tomcat directory. All seems well now, thanks for the point in the right direction!

[Riyad Kalla]

Glad you got things working, I was a bit stumped what happened.

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