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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18626 Digester errors on startup should report filename Summary: Digester errors on startup should report filename Product: Tomcat 4 Version: 4.1.24 Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: Other Component: Catalina AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At startup, catalina.out can report Digester errors involving XML parsing. Unfortunately, these errors do not tell which file contained the errors! This makes tracking down the error very difficult, especially on a system containing many webapps. For example, I recently got the following: Mar 30, 2003 3:03:39 PM org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry loadRegistry INFO: Loading registry information Mar 30, 2003 3:03:44 PM org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry getRegistry INFO: Creating new Registry instance Mar 30, 2003 3:04:08 PM org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry getServer INFO: Creating MBeanServer Mar 30, 2003 3:04:39 PM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester fatalError SEVERE: Parse Fatal Error at line 220 column -1: Next character must be ">" terminating comment . org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Next character must be ">" terminating comment . at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3182) at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3176) [...] at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1543) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:449) 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) Catalina.start: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Next character must be ">" terminating comment . org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Next character must be ">" terminating comment . at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3182) at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3176) [...] I haven't tracked it down yet, but there's obviously a syntax error in an XML file somewhere, possibly a web.xml file that is no longer valid (but was parsed OK by an earlier, less stringent version of Digester or of the XML parser now used by Tomcat 4.1.24). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]