"validate" param in web.xml

[Mike Campbell <mi...@s1.com>]

Is there some reason for the name "validate" in the web.xml file to indicate
using the "new" format vs. the old?  Is there more to it than that, because
I can't grasp how the term "validate" relates to deciding which version/DTD
of the configuration file to use.

Thanks

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Re: "validate" param in web.xml

["Craig R. McClanahan" <Cr...@eng.sun.com>]

Mike Campbell wrote:

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>
> Is there some reason for the name "validate" in the web.xml file to indicate
> using the "new" format vs. the old?  Is there more to it than that, because I
> can't grasp how the term "validate" relates to deciding which version/DTD of
> the configuration file to use.
>

It was probably not a particularly enlightened choice of variable name :-)

The motivation is that a validating XML parse is performed on the new
struts-config.xml file, while a non-validating parse is done on the old format
(because there was no DTD for it).

Oh well, we only need to deal with this for 1.0 -- in 1.1 we can clean up all
the cruft from pre-1.0 days.

>
> Thanks
>
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> Mike Campbell        email: mike.campbell@s1.com
>

Craig