[UIMA-2155] XALAN 2.6.0 overriding normal Java transformer factory in some JVMs causes UIMA XML parser failures

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0SDK, 2.5.0SDK
• Component/s: Core Java Framework
• Assignee: Marshall Schor
• Reporter: deprecated (use "rec")
• Created: 16/Jun/11 10:13
• Updated: 04/Dec/13 19:55
• Resolved: 04/Dec/13 19:55

Description

Several people in our group that run Linux with the Sun JDK have run into problems that UIMA fails to parse descriptors unless Xerces 2.9.1 and Xalan 2.7.1. are on the classpath.
It might be a good idea to add these two as standard dependencies to uimaj-core.

org.apache.uima.util.InvalidXMLException: Invalid descriptor at Chunks.xml.
    at org.apache.uima.util.impl.XMLParser_impl.parse(XMLParser_impl.java:194)
    at org.apache.uima.util.impl.XMLParser_impl.parseTypeSystemDescription(XMLParser_impl.java:708)
    at org.apache.uima.util.impl.XMLParser_impl.parseTypeSystemDescription(XMLParser_impl.java:695)
    at org.uimafit.factory.TypeSystemDescriptionFactory.createTypeSystemDescription(TypeSystemDescriptionFactory.java:145)
    at org.uimafit.factory.AnalysisEngineFactory.createPrimitiveDescription(AnalysisEngineFactory.java:229)
    at wikicounts.RunCountExperiment.run(RunCountExperiment.java:66)
    at wikicounts.RunCountExperiment.main(RunCountExperiment.java:27)
Caused by: org.w3c.dom.DOMException: NAMESPACE_ERR: An attempt is made to create or change an object in a way which is incorrect with regard to namespaces.
    at org.apache.xml.utils.DOMBuilder.startElement(DOMBuilder.java:322)
    at org.apache.xalan.transformer.TransformerIdentityImpl.startElement(TransformerIdentityImpl.java:1020)
    at org.apache.uima.util.impl.SaxDeserializer_impl.startElement(SaxDeserializer_impl.java:202)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.uima.util.impl.XMLParser_impl.parse(XMLParser_impl.java:177)
    ... 6 more
Caused by: org.w3c.dom.DOMException: NAMESPACE_ERR: An attempt is made to create or change an object in a way which is incorrect with regard to namespaces.
    at org.apache.xerces.dom.AttrNSImpl.setName(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.dom.AttrNSImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.createAttributeNS(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.dom.ElementImpl.setAttributeNS(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xml.utils.DOMBuilder.startElement(DOMBuilder.java:307)
    ... 18 more

Issue Links

• is related to: UIMA-1334 Sandbox - SimpleServer missing config-xml.jar
• relates to: UIMA-3404 Correct faulty merge from svn branch "xmlComments"