Description Tod Creasey 2002-04-11 13:55:56 EDT

Build 20020409. 

When you start up Eclipse with an empty workbench you get the following error 
printed to the console

Error in WelcomeParser.parse
Reason:
An exception occurred when parsing the welcome page

Here is the stack trace

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<log>
<log-entry date="Thu Apr 11 14:03:27 EDT 2002">
  <status
     plugin-id="org.eclipse.core.resources"
     severity="INFO"
     message="Error in WelcomeParser.parse"
     code="4">
  </status>
</log-entry>
<log-entry date="Thu Apr 11 14:03:27 EDT 2002">
  <status
     plugin-id="org.eclipse.ui"
     severity="ERROR"
     message="An exception occurred when parsing the welcome page"
     code="1">
    <exception
       message="The element type &quot;item&quot; must be terminated by the 
matching end-tag &quot;&lt;/item&gt;&quot;."
       trace="
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type &quot;item&quot; must be 
terminated by the matching end-tag &quot;&lt;/item&gt;&quot;.
	at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.reportError
(XMLParser.java:1196)
	at 
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$ContentDispatcher.dispatch
(XMLDocumentScanner.java(Compiled Code))
	at 
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$ContentDispatcher.dispatch
(XMLDocumentScanner.java(Compiled Code))
	at 
org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$ContentDispatcher.dispatch
(XMLDocumentScanner.java(Compiled Code))
	at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome
(XMLDocumentScanner.java:381)
	at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:1081)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.WelcomeParser.parse
(WelcomeParser.java:219)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.WelcomeEditor.read
(WelcomeEditor.java:491)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.WelcomeEditor.readFile
(WelcomeEditor.java:507)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.WelcomeEditor.createPartControl
(WelcomeEditor.java:232)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartPane$1.run(PartPane.java:53)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.InternalPlatform.run
(InternalPlatform.java:838)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.run(Platform.java:411)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartPane.createChildControl(PartPane.java:51)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartPane.createControl(PartPane.java:93)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorWorkbook.createPage
(EditorWorkbook.java:223)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorWorkbook.add(EditorWorkbook.java:83)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorArea.addEditor(EditorArea.java:43)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorPresentation.openEditor
(EditorPresentation.java:307)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager$2.run(EditorManager.java:468)
	at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:56)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.openInternalEditor
(EditorManager.java:460)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.openInternalEditor
(EditorManager.java:529)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.openEditor
(EditorManager.java:361)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.openEditor
(EditorManager.java:264)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor
(WorkbenchPage.java:1565)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor
(WorkbenchPage.java:1529)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor
(WorkbenchPage.java:1521)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.QuickStartAction.run
(QuickStartAction.java:72)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.openWelcomeDialog
(Workbench.java:657)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.init(Workbench.java:504)
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.run(Workbench.java:816)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.boot.InternalBootLoader.run
(InternalBootLoader.java:777)
	at org.eclipse.core.boot.BootLoader.run(BootLoader.java:319)
	at EclipseRuntimeLauncher.main(EclipseRuntimeLauncher.java:14)
">
    </exception>
  </status>
</log-entry>