Is there a way to get the compiler to ignore the "<?xml version="1.0"?>" syntax?
Otherwise this means that serving any page that is XML compliant (WML, XHTML, etc) now
requires a complete
rewrite of all JSP files to run in 4.0.
Thanks.
...alex...
"Craig R. McClanahan" wrote:
> Davanum Srinivas wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > Attached is a JSP Sample file which generates WML. It works with no problems on
>Tomcat3.1, but
> > fails miserably with the latest dev nightly snapshot and m4. Can someone shed
>light?
> >
>
> Well, your page certainly doesn't work under Tomcat 4.0 (which implements JSP 1.2).
>Furthermore, it
> *should* not.
>
> Because you are starting this page with an <?xml version="1.0"?> directive, the JSP
>compiler assumes that
> you have created this page in the XML syntax for JSP pages, as described in the 1.2
>spec
> <http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/download.html>. However, this page violates
>several of the rules:
> * It does not start with a <jsp:root> element (this is
> what the parse error is complaining about).
> * It uses <% %> for a scriptlet, instead of the
> required <jsp:scriptlet> element.
>
> You will need to rewrite your page conforming to the new syntax rules in order for
>it to work correctly
> under 4.0.
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > dims
> >
> > PS: Am not currently subscribed to the list. So please CC me at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> >
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
> PS: Why did it work under 3.1? Because 3.1 didn't support the XML syntax, so it
>just passed the <?xml?>
> directive through as template text.
