org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file for *VALID* XML

Question

I am getting very strange \"Premature end of file.\" exception for last few days on one of our servers. The same configuration XML works fine on another server. We

Answer 1

Are you sure that the XML file is in the correct character encoding? FileReader always uses the platform default encoding, so if the "working" server had a default encoding of (say) ISO-8859-1 and the "problem" server uses UTF-8 you would see this error if the XML contains any non-ASCII characters.

Does it work if you create the InputSource from a FileInputStream instead of a FileReader?