Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 4 Developer's Guide to Java Web Applications

Data

Some elements contain character data instead of subelements. These elements have definitions of the following format:

<!ELEMENT element-name (#PCDATA)/>

For example:

<!ELEMENT description (#PCDATA)/>

In the sun-web.xml file, white space is treated as part of the data in a data element. Therefore, no extra white space should appear before or after the data delimited by a data element. For example:

<description/>class name of session manager</description>