Breaking Large TLD into separate tag files

Question

I have a custom JSF components project where my TLD has gotten fairly large (7000 lines). I've read the JavaEE tutorial over and over and am trying to follow its unstructions about breaking it into multiple tag files. I have 10 major components, each with multiple subcomponents, and I would like to break it into 10 different tagfiles. Since this will be built into a jar, the tag structure is put in the META-INF folder.
My questions are:
1) does the tagfile need to use the same xmlns as the taglib? What does the tagfile look like?
2) The tutorial mentioned an auto-generated taglib for each directory. Do I need to create a second tld for the tags directory if I am referencing each tagfile directly from the maintaglib.tld?
Here's what I'm trying:
Directory Structure:
/META-INF/maintaglib.tld
/META-INF/tags/compOne.tag
/META-INF/tags/compTwo.tag
/META-INF/tags/compThree.tag
/META-INF/tags/compFour.tag
...Main Taglib:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<taglib id="mainTaglib"
        xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-jsptaglibrary_2_1.xsd"
        version="2.1">
    <description>This taglib is for use with my components.</description>
    <display-name>My Components Taglib</display-name>
    <tlib-version>1.2</tlib-version>
    <short-name>cust-jsf</short-name>
    <uri>http://www.site.com/jsf</uri>
    <tag-file id="tagfileOne">
        <description>The description</description>
        <display-name>First Tag File</display-name>
        <name>compOneTagfile</name>
        <path>/META-INF/tags/compOne.tag</path>
    </tag-file>
    <tag-file id="tagfileTwo">
        <description>The description</description>
        <display-name>Second Tag File</display-name>
        <name>compTwoTagfile</name>
        <path>/META-INF/tags/compTwo.tag</path>
    </tag-file>
    <tag-file id="tagfileThree">
        <description>The description</description>
        <display-name>Third Tag File</display-name>
        <name>compThreeTagfile</name>
        <path>/META-INF/tags/compThree.tag</path>
    </tag-file>
    <tag-file id="tagfileFour">
        <description>The description</description>
        <display-name>Fourth Tag File</display-name>
        <name>compFourTagfile</name>
        <path>/META-INF/tags/compFour.tag</path>
    </tag-file>
...Example of a tagfile:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<tag>
    <description>
        <![CDATA[This tag creates a  Hint object, defining the timing for showing and expiring. To show actual
        hints, you will need to add hint tags as children.]]>
    </description>
    <name>hints</name>
    <tag-class>com.foo.callout.HintsTag</tag-class>
    <body-content>scriptless</body-content>
    <attribute>
        <description><![CDATA[How long to wait before showing the callout on a mouseover.]]></description>
        <name>timerLength</name>
        <required>false</required>
        <deferred-value>
            <type>java.lang.Integer</type>
        </deferred-value>
    </attribute>
...

Answer 1

I think you've got an incorrect understanding of tag files.
Tag files are fragments of markup that are exposed to the page developer in the same fashion as
traditional JSP tag handlers are.
They aren't a mechanism to allow you to modularize your TLD.
If you really want to build an XML document from several well-formed fragments, you may wish to review
this information on [external entity references|http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-external-ent]