Which version of Xerces are you using? If it's 2.2, there is a bug associated with the problem:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13282 -- Jeanfrancois Mark R. Diggory wrote: > I keep getting these parsing exceptions when I try to load my custom > taglibs (from JAR files) on Tomcat 4.0.3, 4.0.5, 4.1 on Windows 2000/XP. > >> Starting service Tomcat-Standalone >> Apache Tomcat/4.0.3 >> PARSE error at line 1 column -1 >> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character conversion error: "Malformed >> UTF-8 char >> -- is an XML encoding declaration missing?" (line number may be too >> low). >> PARSE error at line 1 column -1 >> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character conversion error: "Malformed >> UTF-8 char >> -- is an XML encoding declaration missing?" (line number may be too >> low). >> PARSE error at line 1 column -1 >> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character conversion error: "Malformed >> UTF-8 char >> -- is an XML encoding declaration missing?" (line number may be too >> low). >> PARSE error at line 1 column -1 >> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character conversion error: "Malformed >> UTF-8 char >> -- is an XML encoding declaration missing?" (line number may be too >> low). >> PARSE error at line 1 column -1 >> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character conversion error: "Malformed >> UTF-8 char >> -- is an XML encoding declaration missing?" (line number may be too >> low). >> PARSE error at line 1 column -1 >> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character conversion error: "Malformed >> UTF-8 char >> -- is an XML encoding declaration missing?" (line number may be too >> low). >> No tags >> No tags > > > > I know this is coming from some parsing error when the tld is parsed. > But even if I put the tld file into different encodings (ISO-8859-1). > I still get the exceptions. > > example tld header: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE taglib PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD JSP Tag > Library 1.2//EN" > "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-jsptaglibrary_1_2.dtd";> > <taglib> > ... > > -Mark Diggory > > > > -- > 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]>
