2013/7/8 Mark Thomas wrote: > > On 08/07/2013 06:38, Jeremy Boynes wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2013, at 10:44 PM, Jeremy Boynes <jboy...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > Jasper's descriptor parser (used for web.xml and TLDs) can only > > validate DTD-based documents. I opened 55212 about adding it. Such a > > fix could benefit from using the same resolver and cached copies that > > Catalina does. This is less of an issue if Jasper uses the > > ServletContext as it could rely on the container to parse/validate > > web.xml. It would still be needed if we wanted JspC to validate files > > standalone but there is a separate ant task that can do that. > > Jasper and Catalina need to share the same web.xml parsing and merging > code. Violetta started on this before she was a committer but the work > stalled primarily because of the size of patch which in turn was due to > the re-factoring required. The first step is to get the parsing and > merging into a package that can be shared by Jasper and Catalina. That > is far easier for a committer to do as they can use the refactoring > tools in an IDE rather than having to generate a huge patch and then > wait for a committer to find the time to review it. >
Jeremy, Here [1] is my work on the topic that I started several months ago. We can discuss which parts of it are still applicable and I can work on this also. Regards Violeta [1] https://github.com/violetagg/apache-tomcat-8.0/commits/master
