Hi Paul, I believe I've shuffled through everyone's answer to your question.
But, lets assume you're doing everything right from a tag library perspective. This error could simply be because your XML document doesn't refer to a DTD (from what you've posted it appears it does not). The parser may require a DTD to validate your XML document. The DTD would "declare" <books> and any constraints it may have. Just a thought, -Becky >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/27/02 05:50PM >>> Hi, In my quest to be able to parse a 10 line XML file in a JSP (notice the sarcasm there?) and extract an element value, I have come accross a few PDFs that talk of custom tags - and for the purposes of XML, a taglib directive. In several examples I saw <%@ taglib uri="..." prefix="tl" %> and syntax such as <tl:parse id=...". Can anyone shed some light on this please? What is 'uri'? Presuming it was a path to my XML file I plugged in - <%@ taglib uri="myfile.xml" prefix="tl" %>, hoping I could parse it and extract elements using <tl:parse id=.... etc. Supplying the XML file below, I was given the error in the browser: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: XML parsing error on file /myfile.xml: (line 3, col -1): Element type "books" is not declared. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <books> <book isbn="123"> <title>1</title> <quantity>10</quantity> <price>$17.95</price> </book> </books> What have I stumbled upon? Am i way off thinking I can use this syntax to parse my XML file? What is the significance of the error displayed? Thanks very much paul. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>