Exception in thread "main" org.mozilla.javascript.EvaluatorException: illegally formed XML syntax

[albert kao]

Running my Spring 2.5.6 jsp page in Eclipse Helios Release has the following error.
How to find out where is the illegally formed XML syntax?
The message "#49" is not helpful.
Exception in thread "main" org.mozilla.javascript.EvaluatorException: illegally formed XML syntax (admin.jsp#49)
at org.mozilla.javascript.DefaultErrorReporter.runtimeError(DefaultErrorReporter.java:95)
at org.mozilla.javascript.DefaultErrorReporter.error(DefaultErrorReporter.java:82)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.addError(Parser.java:122)
at org.mozilla.javascript.TokenStream.getNextXMLToken(TokenStream.java:1056)
at org.mozilla.javascript.TokenStream.getFirstXMLToken(TokenStream.java:907)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.xmlInitializer(Parser.java:1520)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.unaryExpr(Parser.java:1497)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.mulExpr(Parser.java:1432)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.addExpr(Parser.java:1413)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.shiftExpr(Parser.java:1393)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.relExpr(Parser.java:1367)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.eqExpr(Parser.java:1323)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.bitAndExpr(Parser.java:1312)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.bitXorExpr(Parser.java:1301)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.bitOrExpr(Parser.java:1290)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.andExpr(Parser.java:1278)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.orExpr(Parser.java:1266)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.condExpr(Parser.java:1249)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.assignExpr(Parser.java:1231)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.expr(Parser.java:1220)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.statementHelper(Parser.java:1151)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.statement(Parser.java:619)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.parse(Parser.java:351)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Parser.parse(Parser.java:310)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.compileImpl(Context.java:2192)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.compileReader(Context.java:1246)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.compileReader(Context.java:1218)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.evaluateReader(Context.java:1160)
at tk.eclipse.plugin.jseditor.launch.executer.JavaScriptExecutor.main(JavaScriptExecutor.java:30)

[Peter Mularien]

This looks like an Eclipse bug / issue and not related to Spring... that said, it's failing in the Rhino Javascript parser, so I would look for Javascript in your page - without the contents of the page, not too much we can do.