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Reputation: 1523

spring application does not start: SAXParseException: Document root element "beans", must match DOCTYPE root "null"

I just deployed an application to tomcat version 6.0.32 and I get this error from spring. I don't think the xml is invalid

PAS: 2011-12-28 14:19:08,585 INFO [org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader] - PAS: 2011-12-28 14:19:08,592 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] - org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 15 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/config/applicationContext.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "beans", must match DOCTYPE root "null". org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "beans", must match DOCTYPE root "null". at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:131) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:384) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:318) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.rootElementSpecified(XMLDTDValidator.java:1621) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleStartElement(XMLDTDValidator.java:1900) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(XMLDTDValidator.java:764) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1363) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$ContentDriver.scanRootElementHook(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:1318) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:3104) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:922) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:648) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:511) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:808) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:737) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:119) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:235) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:284) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:222) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:173) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:148) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:129) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:145) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:126) at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:94) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:89) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:262) at org.springframework.web.context.support.AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext.java:139) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:252) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:190) at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4205) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4704) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:799) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:779) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:601) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:778) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:504) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1315) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:142) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1061) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:840) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:463) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:525) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:754) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:595) 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:597) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)

XMl is: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
  xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
  xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"   xmlns:security="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"

  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd 
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/util
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.5.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/security 
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-2.5.xsd">

<context:property-placeholder  location="WEB-INF/passport.properties, WEB-INF/config/server.properties"/>
<util:properties id="props" location="WEB-INF/passport.properties" />

<context:component-scan base-package="util" />

<bean id="passportConfig" class="util.PassportBaseConfig"
    p:configLocation="WEB-INF/" autowire="no" factory-method="getInstance"
    init-method="init" p:userDAO-ref="passportUserDao" p:teamDAO-ref="passportTeamDao" 
    p:serverId="${serverId}">
    <constructor-arg ref="props" />

</bean>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 17994

Answers (4)

Vijay
Vijay

Reputation: 11

I have faced this error:

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Line ... in XML document from class path resource [applicationContext.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: ...; columnNumber: ...; Document root element "beans", must match DOCTYPE root "null". org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; Document root element "beans", must match DOCTYPE root "null".

I have resolved it by adding:

xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"

in applicationContext.xml file & adding correct version of dependencies, like in my case i have used 3.2.3.RELEASE for spring-context-support dependency.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
    <version>**3.2.3.RELEASE**</version>
</dependency>

Upvotes: 0

Paul
Paul

Reputation: 20061

Take a look at this example: Creating a Spring Application

Notice the difference between your XML and a proper applicationContext.xml. You're missing all references to the namespace.

Upvotes: 0

DwB
DwB

Reputation: 38290

Don't use a DOC type in your spring config file.

Instead start your spring config file like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

Also, be sure to close the beans tag at the end of the config file.

</beans>

Here is a link to the IOC Container Info in the spring 3.1 reference

Upvotes: 1

Kal
Kal

Reputation: 24910

From this message

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "beans", must match DOCTYPE root "null".

it seems to me like your DTD is incorrect and there is some version mismatch. You are using a new version in the DTD and supplying older jars.

Upvotes: 7

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