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<h2 title="Class TagLibraryValidator" class="title">Class TagLibraryValidator</h2>
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<pre>public abstract class <span class="typeNameLabel">TagLibraryValidator</span>
extends java.lang.Object</pre>
<div class="block">Translation-time validator class for a JSP page. A validator operates on the XML view associated with the JSP page.
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The TLD file associates a TagLibraryValidator class and some init arguments with a tag library.
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The JSP container is reponsible for locating an appropriate instance of the appropriate subclass by
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<li>new a fresh instance, or reuse an available one
<li>invoke the setInitParams(Map) method on the instance
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once initialized, the validate(String, String, PageData) method will be invoked, where the first two arguments are
the prefix and uri for this tag library in the XML View. The prefix is intended to make it easier to produce an error
message. However, it is not always accurate. In the case where a single URI is mapped to more than one prefix in the
XML view, the prefix of the first URI is provided. Therefore, to provide high quality error messages in cases where
the tag elements themselves are checked, the prefix parameter should be ignored and the actual prefix of the element
should be used instead. TagLibraryValidators should always use the uri to identify elements as beloning to the tag
library, not the prefix.
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A TagLibraryValidator instance may create auxiliary objects internally to perform the validation (e.g. an XSchema
validator) and may reuse it for all the pages in a given translation run.
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The JSP container is not guaranteed to serialize invocations of validate() method, and TagLibraryValidators should
perform any synchronization they may require.
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As of JSP 2.0, a JSP container must provide a jsp:id attribute to provide higher quality validation errors. The
container will track the JSP pages as passed to the container, and will assign to each element a unique "id", which
is passed as the value of the jsp:id attribute. Each XML element in the XML view available will be extended with this
attribute. The TagLibraryValidator can then use the attribute in one or more ValidationMessage objects. The container
then, in turn, can use these values to provide more precise information on the location of an error.
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The actual prefix of the <code>id</code> attribute may or may not be <code>jsp</code> but it will always map to the
namespace <code>http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page</code>. A TagLibraryValidator implementation must rely on the uri, not
the prefix, of the <code>id</code> attribute.</div>
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<td class="colLast"><code><span class="memberNameLink"><a href="../../../../jakarta/servlet/jsp/tagext/TagLibraryValidator.html#setInitParameters-java.util.Map-">setInitParameters</a></span>(java.util.Map&lt;java.lang.String,java.lang.Object&gt;&nbsp;map)</code>
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<a href="../../../../jakarta/servlet/jsp/tagext/PageData.html" title="class in jakarta.servlet.jsp.tagext">PageData</a>&nbsp;page)</code>
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<pre>public&nbsp;TagLibraryValidator()</pre>
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<pre>public&nbsp;void&nbsp;setInitParameters(java.util.Map&lt;java.lang.String,java.lang.Object&gt;&nbsp;map)</pre>
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<pre>public&nbsp;<a href="../../../../jakarta/servlet/jsp/tagext/ValidationMessage.html" title="class in jakarta.servlet.jsp.tagext">ValidationMessage</a>[]&nbsp;validate(java.lang.String&nbsp;prefix,
java.lang.String&nbsp;uri,
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<div class="block">Validate a JSP page. This will get invoked once per unique tag library URI in the XML view. This method will
return null if the page is valid; otherwise the method should return an array of ValidationMessage objects. An
array of length zero is also interpreted as no errors.</div>
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<dd><code>prefix</code> - the first prefix with which the tag library is associated, in the XML view. Note that some tags may
use a different prefix if the namespace is redefined.</dd>
<dd><code>uri</code> - the tag library's unique identifier</dd>
<dd><code>page</code> - the JspData page object</dd>
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<pre>public&nbsp;void&nbsp;release()</pre>
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