Definitely a problem with an extra '--' in your XML comments. The only place that '--' is allowed is at the beginning and at the end:
<!--blah blah--> Han Ming On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 04:32 AM, Henri Gomez wrote: > While working on 4.1.2 rpms I noticed the following error at startup : > > 4732 [main] INFO modeler.Registry - Creating MBeanServer > 5705 [main] INFO http11.Http11Protocol - Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 > on port 8080 > Starting service Tomcat-Standalone > Apache Tomcat/4.1 > 7324 [main] ERROR digester.Digester - Parse Fatal Error at line 307 > column 39: 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(Unkn > own 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(Un > known Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unkn > own 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.startup.ContextConfig.tldScanStream(ContextConfig.j > ava:977) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScanTld(ContextConfig.java > :1006) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScan(ContextConfig.java:87 > 0) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:647) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig. > java:243) > at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleS > upport.java:166) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:349 > 3) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188) > 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:510) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203) > 8720 [main] ERROR digester.Digester - Parse Fatal Error at line 307 > column 39: 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(Unkn > own Source) > at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown > Source) > > > > Admin log show me the following error : > > 2002-10-02 13:29:01 WebappLoader[/admin]: Deploying class repositories > to work directory /var/tomcat4/work/Standalone/localhost/admin > 2002-10-02 13:29:01 WebappLoader[/admin]: Deploy class files > /WEB-INF/classes to > /var/tomcat4/webapps/../server/webapps/admin/WEB-INF/classes > 2002-10-02 13:29:01 WebappLoader[/admin]: Deploy JAR > /WEB-INF/lib/struts.jar to > /var/tomcat4/webapps/../server/webapps/admin/WEB-INF/lib/struts.jar > 2002-10-02 13:29:02 ContextConfig[/admin] Exception processing TLD at > resource path /WEB-INF/controls.tld > javax.servlet.ServletException: Exception processing TLD at resource > path /WEB-INF/controls.tld > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScanTld(ContextConfig.java > :1010) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScan(ContextConfig.java:87 > 0) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:647) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig. > java:243) > at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleS > upport.java:166) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:349 > 3) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.j > ava: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(StandardHostDepl > oyer.java:529) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) > at > org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java) > at > org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:260) > at > org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java(Compiled > Code)) > at > org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Un > known Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDi > spatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source) > at > org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unkn > own 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(StandardHostDeplo > yer.java:335) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:803) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.jav > a: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:3 > 68) > at > org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleS > upport.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:510) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400) > at > org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) > > BTW, I'm using xerces-j2 2.2.0 and xml-commons-api 1.0.... > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
