JBAS018014: Failed to parse XML descriptor

Issue

• Our app is failing to deploy in the parsing of a tld file:

ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-2) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."myapp.war".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."myapp.war".PARSE: JBAS018733: Failed to process phase PARSE of deployment "myapp.war"
 at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:127) [jboss-as-server.jar:7.3.3.Final-redhat-3]
 at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1811) [jboss-msc.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
 at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1746) [jboss-msc.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1177) [rt.jar:1.7.0]
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:642) [rt.jar:1.7.0]
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:857) [vm.jar:1.7.0]
Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: JBAS018014: Failed to parse XML descriptor "/content/myapp.war/WEB-INF/lib/datatags.jar/META-INF/taglib.tld" at [227,20]
 at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.parseTLD(TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.java:143)
 at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.processTlds(TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.java:122)
 at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.deploy(TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.java:84)
 at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:120) [jboss-as-server.jar:7.3.3.Final-redhat-3]
 ... 5 more

• The line number it indicates is:

    227       <bodycontent>Empty</bodycontent>