Thank you Wendy, actually it worked (the utf-8) even without the file proparly validated in my IDE. I also thought I had the latest version (a backup restore probably messed this up).
I changed it to 2.3 restarted my IDE (NetBeans) but still does not validate. Both 2.2 and 2.3 dtd files are in my web-inf\lib. If the actual server didn't use the web.xml because of failed validation it wouldn't work at all while in fact it works with the extra filter properly utilized. If, at your convenience, somebody could mention what exactly needs to be checked for Servlet 2.3 compliance, it would be great. Chances are that I have a mix of different version files. Thank you for your time and enjoy your weekend (I know I will, thanks to Jim ;-), I am indebted ) Theo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wendy Smoak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:11 PM Subject: RE: Tomcat/Struts Unicode Encoding/Decoding problems > From: Theodosios Paschalidis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > here is the beginning of my xml document. > <!DOCTYPE web-app > PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN" > "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd";> > Any ideas? Coming in late here, but Filters arrived in Servlet 2.3. You're still using the 2.2 dtd. Change to <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd";> (Interesting, I had http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_3.dtd and apparently it's been changed since I copied and pasted that in who knows how long ago.) Assuming you're on a 2.3 compliant container, Tomcat 4.1 is fine. Also make sure that you put the tags in the right order according to the dtd. -- Wendy Smoak Application Systems Analyst, Sr. ASU IA Information Resources Management --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
