mysterious parse exception on startup
If I put the latest xerces and xalan in tomcat/common/endorsed, I get the following error on startup. I don't get this with the xerces/xalan that comes with jdk 1.4.1. What is causing this? What *file* is this? Starting service Tomcat-Apache Apache Tomcat/4.1.18-LE-jdk14 Parse Fatal Error at line 551 column 44: The string -- is not permitted within comments. org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The string -- is not permitted within comments. at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.scanComment(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanComment(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanDecls(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanDTDExternalSubset(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.struts.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:755) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initServlet(ActionServlet.java:1434) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:474) at org.apache.webapp.admin.ApplicationServlet.init(ApplicationServlet.java:152) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:256) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:934) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:821) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3420) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3608) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:821) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:579) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.addChild(StandardHostDeployer.java:529) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:228) at org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:260) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1036) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1514) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:335) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:803) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:452) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:409) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:879) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:368) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1196) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:738) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:347) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:497) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2189) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:512) at
Re: mysterious parse exception on startup
If it were me, I'd check server.xml carefully for nested comments, or an extraneous !-- or -- Jerry Joseph Shraibman wrote: If I put the latest xerces and xalan in tomcat/common/endorsed, I get the following error on startup. I don't get this with the xerces/xalan that comes with jdk 1.4.1. What is causing this? What *file* is this? Starting service Tomcat-Apache Apache Tomcat/4.1.18-LE-jdk14 Parse Fatal Error at line 551 column 44: The string -- is not permitted within comments. org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The string -- is not permitted within comments. at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.scanComment(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanComment(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanDecls(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanDTDExternalSubset(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.struts.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:755) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initServlet(ActionServlet.java:1434) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:474) at org.apache.webapp.admin.ApplicationServlet.init(ApplicationServlet.java:152) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:256) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:934) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:821) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3420) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3608) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:821) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:579) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.addChild(StandardHostDeployer.java:529) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:228) at org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:260) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1036) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1514) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:335) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:803) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:452) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:409) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:879) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:368) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1196) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:738) at
Re: mysterious parse exception on startup
Joseph Shraibman wrote: If I put the latest xerces and xalan in tomcat/common/endorsed, I get the following error on startup. I don't get this with the xerces/xalan that comes with jdk 1.4.1. What is causing this? What *file* is this? Starting service Tomcat-Apache Apache Tomcat/4.1.18-LE-jdk14 Parse Fatal Error at line 551 column 44: The string -- is not permitted within comments. org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The string -- is not permitted within comments. at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source) It's a know problem with recent versions of Xerces and Struts 1.0. It is a Xerces bug (which gies a confusing error message). To fix it, you can: - use the JDK 1.4 parser - use the Xerces release bundled with Tomcat 4.1.18 - upgrade to Struts 1.1 beta 3 (the XML is different, and doesn't trigger the Xerces bug) Remy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mysterious parse exception on startup
It isn't server.xml. In fact I validate all xml files under my tomcat and webapps directories, and none of them have a problem. Perhaps it is dynamically generated xml inside the tomcat admin app? org.apache.webapp.admin.ApplicationServlet.init(ApplicationServlet.java:152) is in the stack trace. Jerry wrote: If it were me, I'd check server.xml carefully for nested comments, or an extraneous !-- or -- Jerry Joseph Shraibman wrote: If I put the latest xerces and xalan in tomcat/common/endorsed, I get the following error on startup. I don't get this with the xerces/xalan that comes with jdk 1.4.1. What is causing this? What *file* is this? Starting service Tomcat-Apache Apache Tomcat/4.1.18-LE-jdk14 Parse Fatal Error at line 551 column 44: The string -- is not permitted within comments. org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The string -- is not permitted within comments. at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.scanComment(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanComment(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanDecls(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDTDScannerImpl.scanDTDExternalSubset(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$DTDDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.struts.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:755) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initServlet(ActionServlet.java:1434) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:474) at org.apache.webapp.admin.ApplicationServlet.init(ApplicationServlet.java:152) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:256) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:934) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:821) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3420) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3608) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:821) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:579) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.addChild(StandardHostDeployer.java:529) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:228) at org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:260) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1036) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1514) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:335) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:803) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:452) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:409) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:879) at
