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Posted to dev@tomcat.apache.org by Matthias Kaldenbach <ma...@matthias-kaldenbach.de> on 2001/02/12 17:44:59 UTC

Error: in web.xml

Hope this is the right location for reporting errors...

I've just started working with Tomcat 3.2.1.
I wrote to web.xml:

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>servlet_1</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>pattern_1</url-pattern>
  <servlet-name>servlet_2</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>pattern_2</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

instead of:

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>servlet_1</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>pattern_1</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>servlet_2</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>pattern_2</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Tomcat did not find servlet_1 then.
It took me a long time to find out why...
I think it should report an error.

The DTD says:
<!ELEMENT servlet-mapping (servlet-name, url-pattern)>

but obviously it's not checked.
(DTD's are made for this! ;-) )


Thanks to all developers for working on Tomcat!
(Making Web-Apps with Java is great!)

Matthias (not listening to this mailing list!)

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