I'm tempted to say that it should be removed if it's unstable. I don't know that much about the guts of Tomcat but we've seen errors thrown by some of those classes in the commits.
Thanks for your advice on the matter. I think we'll run with xmlValidation="false" from now on. - Julian >>> Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> 5/21/2009 3:51 AM >>> Bill Barker wrote: > "Julian Dunn" <julian.d...@cbc.ca> wrote in message > news:4a14199c.4caf.003...@cbc.ca... >> Hi, >> >> Is it a good idea to run with xmlValidation="true" in server.xml? >> > > In a development enviroment, it can be helpful (especially if you change > web.xml often). I would generally discurage it in a production environment > since the app will take slightly longer to load. > >> I had this on for a while, but then it mysteriously stopped working -- >> the container could no longer validate DTDs, refused to load webapps, >> etc. >> > > And another good reason to not use it in production ;). > >> What does xmlValidation="true" actually do? >> > > Xie is basically right, except that Tomcat *should* be using the schemas > that it ships with. So not having an internet connection is not supposed to > be a problem. It is worth noting that there are a bunch of issues with validation in 6.0.x and, I suspect, 5.5.x as well. See: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=751502&view=rev http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=752589&view=rev http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=752584&view=rev http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=753035&view=rev http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=753036&view=rev Given that it has been broken for all of 6.0.x, I was debating removing xml validation completely in Tomcat 7. I'd be interested in any views people have on this. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
