mysterious parse exception on startup

[Joseph Shraibman]

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 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
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.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)


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