taglib-location pointing to jar fails to deploy

  <jsp-config>
    <taglib>
      <taglib-uri>http://examples/taglibs-1.0</taglib-uri>
      <taglib-location>/WEB-INF/lib/taglib-example.jar</taglib-location>
    </taglib>
  </jsp-config>

16:57:36,375 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-7) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.deployment.unit."helloWorld.war".PARSE: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.deployment.unit."helloWorld.war".PARSE: WFLYSRV0153: Failed to process phase PARSE of deployment "helloWorld.war"
	at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:150)
	at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.startService(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1736)
	at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.execute(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1698)
	at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$ControllerTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1556)
	at org.jboss.threads.ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.run(ContextClassLoaderSavingRunnable.java:35)
	at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor.safeRun(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1985)
	at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.doRunTask(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1487)
	at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1378)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Caused by: org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitProcessingException: WFLYUT0027: Failed to parse XML descriptor "/content/helloWorld.war/WEB-INF/lib/taglib-example.jar" at [1,0]
	at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.parseTLD(TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.java:229)
	at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.deploy(TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.java:113)
	at org.jboss.as.server.deployment.DeploymentUnitPhaseService.start(DeploymentUnitPhaseService.java:143)
	... 8 more
Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException: Unexpected EOF in prolog
 at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,0]
	at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwUnexpectedEOF(StreamScanner.java:688)
	at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.handleEOF(BasicStreamReader.java:2220)
	at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextFromProlog(BasicStreamReader.java:2126)
	at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.next(BasicStreamReader.java:1181)
	at org.jboss.metadata.parser.jsp.TldMetaDataParser.parse(TldMetaDataParser.java:52)
	at org.wildfly.extension.undertow.deployment.TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.parseTLD(TldParsingDeploymentProcessor.java:227)
	... 10 more