gdhb/WebRoot/WEB-INF/sitemesh.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemesh>
    <property name="decorators-file" value="/WEB-INF/decorators.xml"/>
    <excludes file="${decorators-file}"/> 
    <page-parsers>
        <parser content-type="text/html" class="com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.parser.HTMLPageParser"/>
        <parser content-type="text/html;charset=utf-8" class="com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.parser.HTMLPageParser"/>
    </page-parsers>

    <decorator-mappers>
        <mapper class="com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.mapper.ConfigDecoratorMapper">
            <param name="config" value="${decorators-file}"/> 
        </mapper>
    </decorator-mappers>
</sitemesh>