Problem with Basic Struts Example

Mike · Sep 4, 2004

I'm trying to get a basic struts example to work so I can get to more
advanced coding.

The example is similar to that at beginning of the Wrox book
"Professional Jakarta Struts"

I get the error "Attribute name invalid for tag form according to TLD"
when I run the view page below.

Obviously the attribute "name" is in struts-html.tld

Anyone spot what I'm doing wrong?

Below is my view page and struts config file:

..................... view page ......................

<%@ page language="java" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld" prefix="html" %>

<html>
<head>
<title>Wrox Struts Application</title>

<body>

<html:form action="Lookup" name="lookupForm" type="ch03.LookupForm" >

Symbol: <html:text property="symbol" /><br><br>

<html:submit /><br><br>

</html:form>

</body></html>

................ struts config ............

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>

<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD
Struts Configuration 1.1//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd">

<struts-config>

<form-beans>
<form-bean name="lookupForm" type="ch03.LookupForm" />
</form-beans>

<action-mappings>
<action path="/Lookup" type="ch03.LookupAction"
name="lookupForm">
<forward name="success" path="/quote.jsp"/>
<forward name="failure" path="/index.jsp">
</action>
</action-mappings>

</struts-config>

Sudsy · Sep 4, 2004

Mike wrote:

I get the error "Attribute name invalid for tag form according to TLD"
when I run the view page below.

<html:form action="Lookup" name="lookupForm" type="ch03.LookupForm" >

As you should. Examine carefully the javadocs for the html tags. Check
out the list of attributes for the form tag. There is no "name"
attribute there. Fix that and it will complain about "type", since that
is not a valid attribute of the form tag either. Those attributes belong
in a difference place, namely the struts-config.xml file.
May I suggest you open a browser window and click on the following URL:
<http://struts.apache.org/userGuide/struts-html.html>
You might want to keep that browser window open anytime you're doing
JSP development with html tags; I do!

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Problem with Basic Struts Example

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