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JavaServer Pages, 3rd Edition
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JavaServer Pages, 3rd Edition

by Hans Bergsten
December 2003
Intermediate to advanced
764 pages
24h 58m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Tag File Elements

A TLD can also include declarations of tag files, described in Chapter 11, with any number of <tag-file> elements following the <tag> elements, if any. The <tag-file> element contains other elements that describe different aspects of the custom action. In order, they are <description>, <display-name>, <icon>, <name>, <path>, and <example>.

The <description>, <display-name>, and <icon> elements are all optional and can be used to describe each tag file in the same way as for other tag library artifacts.

The <name> element is mandatory and contains the name for the corresponding custom action element in the JSP pages. It must be a name that is unique among tags and tag files in the tag library.

The mandatory <path> element contains the path to the tag file. If the tag file is packaged together with the TLD in a JAR file, it must start with /META-INF/tags, and consequently, the tag file must be located somewhere in this structure in the JAR file. If the tag file and the TLD reside directly in the web application structure (e.g., during development), the path must start with /WEB-INF/tags.

An optional <example> element can be used to include an example of how the custom action implemented by the tag file should be used, just as for the <tag> element.

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