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Greetings: Im thinking the JKD im using must be missing the parser eclipse is looking for. I had this exception when attempting to open an htm file in the eclipse editor. I believe I'm running the latest builds for everything. I'll attach my configuration as a .txt file. Let me know what else I can do to help here. javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError: Provider org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl not found at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory.newInstance(SAXParserFactory.java:113) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.uriresolver.internal.XMLCatalogPersistence.load(XMLCatalogPersistence.java:93) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.uriresolver.internal.XMLCatalogPersistence.load(XMLCatalogPersistence.java:64) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.uriresolver.internal.XMLCatalogPersistence.load(XMLCatalogPersistence.java:56) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.uriresolver.internal.DefaultCatalogImpl.<init>(DefaultCatalogImpl.java:33) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.uriresolver.XMLCatalogPlugin.getDefaultXMLCatalog(XMLCatalogPlugin.java:42) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.modelquery.XMLCatalogIdResolver.resolveId(XMLCatalogIdResolver.java:62) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.modelquery.XMLCatalogIdResolver.resolveId(XMLCatalogIdResolver.java:55) at org.eclipse.wst.html.core.modelquery.XHTMLAssociationProvider.getXHTMLCMDocument(XHTMLAssociationProvider.java:59) at org.eclipse.wst.html.core.modelquery.HTMLModelQueryCMProvider.getCorrespondingCMDocument(HTMLModelQueryCMProvider.java:65) at org.eclipse.wst.common.contentmodel.modelqueryimpl.SimpleAssociationProvider.getCorrespondingCMDocument(SimpleAssociationProvider.java:36) at org.eclipse.wst.common.contentmodel.modelqueryimpl.ModelQueryImpl.getCorrespondingCMDocument(ModelQueryImpl.java:96) at org.eclipse.wst.html.core.commentelement.handlers.CommentElementHandlerForSSI.createElement(CommentElementHandlerForSSI.java:41) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.commentelement.impl.CommentElementConfiguration.createElement(CommentElementConfiguration.java:77) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelParser.createCommentElement(XMLModelParser.java:718) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelParser.insertComment(XMLModelParser.java:917) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelParser.insertStructuredDocumentRegion(XMLModelParser.java:1517) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelParser.replaceStructuredDocumentRegions(XMLModelParser.java:2300) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelImpl.newModel(XMLModelImpl.java:575) at org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.document.XMLModelImpl.setStructuredDocument(XMLModelImpl.java:838) at org.eclipse.wst.sse.core.AbstractModelLoader.createModel(AbstractModelLoader.java:115) at org.eclipse.wst.sse.core.internal.FileBufferModelManager.getModel(FileBufferModelManager.java:444) at org.eclipse.wst.sse.core.ModelManagerImpl._getModelFor(ModelManagerImpl.java:400) at org.eclipse.wst.sse.core.ModelManagerImpl.getModelForEdit(ModelManagerImpl.java:1163) at org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui.StructuredTextEditor.doSetInput(StructuredTextEditor.java:1294) at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AbstractTextEditor$16.run(AbstractTextEditor.java:2345) at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext.runInCurrentThread(ModalContext.java:346) at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext.run(ModalContext.java:291) at org.eclipse.jface.window.ApplicationWindow$1.run(ApplicationWindow.java:624) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:69) at org.eclipse.jface.window.ApplicationWindow.run(ApplicationWindow.java:621) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchWindow.run(WorkbenchWindow.java:1975) at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AbstractTextEditor.internalInit(AbstractTextEditor.java:2363) at org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.AbstractTextEditor.init(AbstractTextEditor.java:2390) at org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui.StructuredTextEditor.init(StructuredTextEditor.java:1924) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.createSite(EditorManager.java:857) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.busyRestoreEditorHelper(EditorManager.java:1223) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.busyRestoreEditor(EditorManager.java:1102) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager$7.run(EditorManager.java:1064) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:69) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.restoreEditor(EditorManager.java:1062) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager$Editor.getEditor(EditorManager.java:1648) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager$Editor.getPart(EditorManager.java:1639) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartPane.setVisible(PartPane.java:260) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.PresentablePart.setVisible(PresentablePart.java:126) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.newapi.PresentablePartFolder.select(PresentablePartFolder.java:268) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.newapi.LeftToRightTabOrder.select(LeftToRightTabOrder.java:65) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.presentations.newapi.TabbedStackPresentation.selectPart(TabbedStackPresentation.java:391) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.refreshPresentationSelection(PartStack.java:1070) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.setSelection(PartStack.java:1019) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.showPart(PartStack.java:1223) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PartStack.add(PartStack.java:406) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorStack.add(EditorStack.java:109) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorSashContainer.addEditor(EditorSashContainer.java:63) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorAreaHelper.addToLayout(EditorAreaHelper.java:267) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager$4.run(EditorManager.java:829) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:69) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.createEditorTab(EditorManager.java:809) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.openEditorFromDescriptor(EditorManager.java:697) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.EditorManager.openEditor(EditorManager.java:660) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyOpenEditorBatched(WorkbenchPage.java:2236) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyOpenEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2165) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.access$7(WorkbenchPage.java:2157) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage$9.run(WorkbenchPage.java:2143) at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator.java:69) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2138) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.openEditor(WorkbenchPage.java:2123) at org.eclipse.ui.actions.OpenWithMenu.openEditor(OpenWithMenu.java:278) at org.eclipse.ui.actions.OpenWithMenu.access$0(OpenWithMenu.java:270) at org.eclipse.ui.actions.OpenWithMenu$2.handleEvent(OpenWithMenu.java:177) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:82) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1012) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:2778) at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:2472) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:1570) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:1534) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:306) at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:143) at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEApplication.run(IDEApplication.java:103) at org.eclipse.core.internal.runtime.PlatformActivator$1.run(PlatformActivator.java:228) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:344) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run(EclipseStarter.java:156) 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:585) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:315) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:268) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:942) at org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:926)
Created attachment 20268 [details] eclipse configuration settings. This is the configuration for the eclipse where this error occured.
Changeing component to more specific XML one since this is related to XML catalog's use of SAX parser.
Thanks for the attachment showing your config. The main thing I see there is that you are running on jdk1.5.0_01. Technically speaking, we only support running on Java 1.4.x. I have heard rumors there are issues with the Java 1.5 JAXP 1.3 "hard coding" certain configuration items that don't "play nice" with Xerces, so this might be one of those cases. So ... I'm not sure we can fix, exactly, but we will investigate and at a minimum, try to reduce the error to logging "incorrect config for XML Catalog" and see if we can at least continue running so the editor opens (though, without the XML Catalog, many functions would be limited). And, I suspect, this issue would bite us in other areas and this just happens to be one of the first hit. BTW, just for information as we explore this, some configuration issues are detailed in http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-xni.html#faq-2 I'm not sure directly related (but I'd forget if I don't paste it here :) Thanks.
Oh, I just noticed another important part of your config: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_01/jre/lib/ext/ has xerces in it?! I assume you did that "manually"? Is there a reason/need you have for that? We now have a xerces plugin as part of our WTP "stack". Will that remove your need to have in jre/lib/ext? Is there a particular version of xerces you were wanting/needing? Or is this just something that's been there for a while? [And if you don't know that you need them, could you try removing and see if problem goes away?] Thanks again.
Greetings: Thanks for the Xerces hint David. Removing the Xerxes jars form jre/lib/ext seems to fix this issue so far. I am not sure why I added the xerces jars there in the first place. Doesn't the Sun JDK come with an default SAX and DOM implementation? I think it was crimson at one point and was changed to xerces. I'm not sure so I'll have to check. Let me know if you need me to report more info regarding this issue otherwise it is safe to close it on my end. Thanks. Bill.
Thanks for testing the "fix" Bill. Instead of closing this, I'm going to change abstract and change to an "enhancement". Hopefully, in future milestone/version we can do a better job of at least logging "probable xerces config problem" if not actually display warning, or something.
Oh, and to answer your question, Bill, we are including Xerces in the plugin stack since we need it for some special validation functions which are not in the JDK standard "DOM Parsers". Our thinking, so far, is that its better for us to provide an explicit known version than to rely on (multiple copies of) implicit versions. We'll see how it turns out. :)
(In reply to comment #7) I had a similar error. I could not see my Help Contents in my Mac installation. The solution was to delete all xerces and xalan related files from my /Library/Java/Extensions directory.
Still worth doing, but we don't have people to work on this just now. We would accept high quality patches, though.
Closing as "works for me", as I think from 3.3 on, our version of xerces should automagically be used instead of the one from "java extensions" directory. And, we have no plans to do any more work for older versions.
