Element faces-config must be declared

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I've got this error in project faces-config.xml file in my IntelliJ IDE:

Element faces-config must be declared

Here is my faces-config.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config
        xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
        http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_3_0.xsd"
        version="2.3">
    
</faces-config>

And pom.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    ...

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <maven.compiler.target>17</maven.compiler.target>
        <maven.compiler.source>17</maven.compiler.source>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>jakarta.platform</groupId>
            <artifactId>jakarta.jakartaee-api</artifactId>
            <version>9.1.0</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.3.2</version>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

How can I fix this?

BalusC · Accepted Answer · 2022-05-27T10:16:09.073

xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
    http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_3_0.xsd"

Try opening http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_3_0.xsd in your favorite webbrowser. It returns 404. In other words, this URL is not correct. The IDE's built-in XML parser is also struggling this way. It cannot find the declaration of <faces-config> root element there.

It's not clear which JSF version exactly you intend to develop with. If it's 2.3, as indicated by version="2.3", then you should be using http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_3.xsd instead, as specified in "Java EE 8 Schema Resources" section of the webpage behind http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee.

<faces-config
    xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee
        http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_3.xsd"
    version="2.3">

But if it's indeed 3.0, the first Jakartified version (i.e. you should be using jakarta.* package for Jakarta EE API over all place instead of javax.* package), then you should be using the following deployment descriptor root declaration as specified in "Jakarta EE 9" section of the webpage behind https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee.

<faces-config
    xmlns="https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee
        https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee/web-facesconfig_3_0.xsd"
    version="3.0">

Element faces-config must be declared

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