Try putting
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd";>
At the start of the web.xml file
Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Bucanek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 6:55 AM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: Parser Errors on startup
>
> James Bucanek wrote on Saturday, April 17, 2004:
> >Tomcat 4.1.xx/Mac OS X Server (BSD)
> >
> >I'm getting the following errors when I startup Tomcat, and I can't
> >for the life of me figure out what to do about it:
>
> Well, I've managed to narrow the problem down. The <Host> I
> defined in server.xml isn't the problem. The problem is that
> the <Host> I defined caused other webapp's to be deployed
> automatically, and it is apparently the web.xml file that is
> throwing the SAXParseExceptions.
>
> I kept taking things out of the web.xml file to try and zero
> in on the problem. Unfortunately, I'm now left with the
> following web.xml:
>
> <web-app>
> </web-app>
>
> Whenever I start Tomcat, or reload the web application, the
> following gets written to ${catalina-home}/logs/catalina.out:
>
> Apr 17, 2004 10:45:01 PM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester error
> SEVERE: Parse Error at line 1 column -1: Element type
> "web-app" is not declared.
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "web-app" is not declared.
> at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.error(Parser2.java:3317)
> at
> org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeElement(Parser2.java:1469)
> at
> org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:634)
> at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:333)
> at
> org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:448)
> at
> org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1548)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationConfig(Co
> ntextConfig.java:282)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.
> java:639)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(Conte
> xtConfig.java:243)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(L
> ifecycleSupport.java:166)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext
> .java:3582)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.checkWebXmlLastModified
> (HostConfig.java:614)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.run(HostConfig.java:854)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:552)
>
> Note: If I have other declarations in web.xml, I get a SAX
> Exception for (basically) every tag in the file.
>
> They only way to eliminate this Exception is to remove the
> web.xml file altogether. This just doesn't make any sense to
> me. Any insight would be appreciated.
>
> ______________________________________________________
> James Bucanek <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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