Taglib tag doesn't work with web.xml 2.4 ?

Question

That is, I switched to the 2.4 version of web.xml and now none of the taglib elements I have in there work.
I get the following excpetion
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: File "/tags/struts-html" not found
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.jspError(DefaultErrorHandler.jav a:105)
I've been surfing a good portion of the day looking for some documentation on this but to no avail. I did find that I should wrap the taglib elements in a jsp-info. I'm runing tomcat 5.0.19.
In any event here is my web.xml:
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">
<display-name>Struts Examples Application</display-name>
<!-- Standard Action Servlet Configuration (with debugging) -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>InitServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.jacent.admin.servlet.init.InitServlet</servlet-clas s>
<init-param>
<param-name>log4j</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/log4j.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class&g t;
<init-param>
<param-name>config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<!-- module configurations -->
<init-param>
<param-name>debug</param-name>
<param-value>2</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>detail</param-name>
<param-value>2</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<!-- Standard Action Servlet Mapping -->
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<!-- The Usual Welcome File List -->
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<!-- Struts Tag Library Descriptors -->
<jsp-config>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/tags/struts-bean</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-bean.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/tags/struts-html</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-html.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/tags/struts-logic</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-logic.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/tags/struts-nested</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-nested.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/tags/struts-tiles</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/tags/datetime</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/datetime.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/tags/tabs-taglib</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tabs-taglib.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/tags/admin-widgets</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/admin-widgets.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core</taglib-location> ;
</taglib>
</jsp-config>
</web-app>
In addition Eclipse is complaining about web-app element not able to be found.
Thanks for anyone's help!
John

Answer 1

#1 programmers excuse: It works for me. You must be doing something wrong.
Finding out what is the trick.
I have Tomcat 5.0.28, but I don't think it would make THAT much difference.
What version of Java are you running?
You shouldn't need the entry for the JSTL library c. That works without an entry in web.xml, provided you use the correct URI.
First step: make a test page that only uses that one taglib - eg an html:base tag.
Confirm that it breaks with the current setup.
Backup web.xml, and start it from scratch with an absolute minimal one - only import the struts-html library.
Does that work?
Slowly copy and paste in the different bits of web.xml until you find what breaks it.
Hope this helps,
evnafets