>Actually the exceptions are wrapped but unfortunately there is no
>evaluation of all possible wrapping exceptions at the top level.
[...snip...]

Yes, I know. I\'ve been following the discussions re nested exceptions at 
jakarta-commons, as well as in two client project, and there seem to be little or no 
consensus on what would be the \"best practise\". 

It doesn\'t help my use-case though. It would be very helpful if the parser\'s 
exceptions included information on what resource it attempted to parse. I suspect that 
this is a thing that hinders people from coming up to speed with Cocoon. And if there 
is too much initial investment to do in time, corporate users (you know: the 
\"normal\" guys who only does hacking at paid day-time, not perverts like us :-) will 
not use the tool.

Debugging Cocoon apps is an issue. People are used to trial-and-error methods of 
learning. Then it would be nice to see where the error is. When doing my first C2 
installation two months ago, I spent a week debugging my XML source, when the error 
was a minor one in the site map. Add XSLT-sheets and the complexity grows.

One problem is that as one gets more experienced with the tool, one will see the 
errors less often, so it will never become an itch to scratch. When you are confident 
with the tool enough to hack it, you don\'t have the same needs that you\'ve had when 
you were a beginner, so the tool will never become beginner-friendly.

In order to overcome this, I have started to scribble down my initial stupid beginner 
mistakes. If Cocoon would catch those and spit out intelligent messages and 
suggestions, the tool would be better.

/O

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