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Error messages are not user friendly

           Summary: Error messages are not user friendly
           Product: Xerces-C++
           Version: 2.1.0
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: Other
         Component: Miscellaneous
        AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


From: XMLMsgCat_EN_US.Msg

  7  An exception occurred! Type:{0}, Message:{1}
156  An exception occurred! Type:{0}, Message:{1}
284  An exception occurred! Type:{0}, Message:{1}
285  Unexpected end of file exception. Message: {0}
 45  Datatype error: Type:{0}, Message:{1}.
 46  Schema error: Type:{0}, Message:{1}

These message are not user friendly.
For example I got the following exception:
An exception occurred! Type:RuntimeException, Message:The primary document entit
y could not be opened. Id=E:\team\review\send\020901\NAG\NagMsg_DTD ( line 0, 
char 0 )

The first part of the exception "An exception occurred! Type:RuntimeException, 
Message:" is absolutely informative. Better state smth like: 
"Parsing exception: The primary document entity could not be opened..."

So, the proposal is:
1. Remove all informative text, like "An exception occurred!"
2. Remove template words, like Type: and Message:
3. Provide meaningfull error message

As an example compare the following error templates. I think that the second is 
better.

 46  Schema error: Type:{0}, Message:{1}
 46  Schema error: {1}

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