web.xml uses non-validating xml?

[D. Stimits]

I'm trying to debug something, and the individual 
webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/web.xml file seems to be a bit of an enigma to me. 
 I've been using something like this:

<resource-env-ref>
<description>Test value</description>
<resource-env-ref-name>someValue</resource-env-ref-name>
<env-entry-value>stub value</env-entry-value>
<resource-env-ref-type>java.lang.String</resource-env-ref-type>
</resource-env-ref>
It wasn't working how I expected, so I went to the DTD's to see what was 
written there. Initially I used this DTD:
<!DOCTYPE web-app
 PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
 "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd";>

...shock and surprise...resource-env-ref is not even in the DTD. Yet the 
application starts and runs without a single error or warning. Even so, 
I've found that resource-env-ref still has some functionality. Is this a 
bug, or is this just the result of non-validated file read?

Incidentally, this tag is properly described in 
http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd.

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