XML parsing error: A node test that matches either NCName:* or QName was expected.

Denis Bredelet <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.freemarker.user
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
What does this error mean?

This is my template:

[#ftl]
Parsing HelloWorld.xml

[#recurse doc]


[#macro @element]
${.node.@@start_tag}
[#if .node?children?size > 0]  (I tried to add this to get rid of the error)
[#recurse]
${.node.@@close_tag}
[/#if]
[/#macro]


[#macro @text]
[/#macro]


The maximum depth of my XML is no more than 12. Most nodes have just a single attribute, no text. Note that the error is on the close tag instruction?


$ java HelloWorld
22-Jul-2008 23:43:36 freemarker.log.JDK14LoggerFactory$JDK14Logger error
SEVERE: 

javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: A node test that matches either NCName:* or QName was expected.
The problematic instruction:
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==> ${.node.@@close_tag} [on line 11, column 1 in template.ftl]
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Java backtrace for programmers:
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freemarker.template.TemplateModelException: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: A node test that matches either NCName:* or QName was expected.
	at freemarker.ext.dom.XalanXPathSupport.executeQuery(XalanXPathSupport.java:137)
	at freemarker.ext.dom.NodeModel.get(NodeModel.java:279)
	at freemarker.ext.dom.ElementModel.get(ElementModel.java:130)
	at freemarker.core.Dot._getAsTemplateModel(Dot.java:76)
	at freemarker.core.Expression.getAsTemplateModel(Expression.java:89)
	at freemarker.core.Expression.getStringValue(Expression.java:93)
	at freemarker.core.DollarVariable.accept(DollarVariable.java:76)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.ConditionalBlock.accept(ConditionalBlock.java:79)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.Macro$Context.runMacro(Macro.java:164)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:601)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:451)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.recurse(Environment.java:642)
	at freemarker.core.RecurseNode.accept(RecurseNode.java:94)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.ConditionalBlock.accept(ConditionalBlock.java:79)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.Macro$Context.runMacro(Macro.java:164)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:601)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:451)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.recurse(Environment.java:642)
	at freemarker.core.RecurseNode.accept(RecurseNode.java:94)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.ConditionalBlock.accept(ConditionalBlock.java:79)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.Macro$Context.runMacro(Macro.java:164)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:601)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:451)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.recurse(Environment.java:642)
	at freemarker.core.RecurseNode.accept(RecurseNode.java:94)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.ConditionalBlock.accept(ConditionalBlock.java:79)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.Macro$Context.runMacro(Macro.java:164)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:601)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:451)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.recurse(Environment.java:642)
	at freemarker.core.RecurseNode.accept(RecurseNode.java:94)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.ConditionalBlock.accept(ConditionalBlock.java:79)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.Macro$Context.runMacro(Macro.java:164)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:601)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:451)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.recurse(Environment.java:642)
	at freemarker.core.RecurseNode.accept(RecurseNode.java:94)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.ConditionalBlock.accept(ConditionalBlock.java:79)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.Macro$Context.runMacro(Macro.java:164)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:601)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:451)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.recurse(Environment.java:642)
	at freemarker.core.RecurseNode.accept(RecurseNode.java:94)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.ConditionalBlock.accept(ConditionalBlock.java:79)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.Macro$Context.runMacro(Macro.java:164)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:601)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:451)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.recurse(Environment.java:642)
	at freemarker.core.RecurseNode.accept(RecurseNode.java:94)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.MixedContent.accept(MixedContent.java:92)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.visit(Environment.java:208)
	at freemarker.core.Environment.process(Environment.java:188)
	at freemarker.template.Template.process(Template.java:237)
	at HelloWorld.freemarkerDo(HelloWorld.java:32)
	at HelloWorld.main(HelloWorld.java:18)
Caused by: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: A node test that matches either NCName:* or QName was expected.
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.error(XPathParser.java:649)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.NodeTest(XPathParser.java:1910)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.Basis(XPathParser.java:1773)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.Step(XPathParser.java:1709)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.RelativeLocationPath(XPathParser.java:1613)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.LocationPath(XPathParser.java:1584)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.PathExpr(XPathParser.java:1306)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.UnionExpr(XPathParser.java:1225)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.UnaryExpr(XPathParser.java:1131)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.MultiplicativeExpr(XPathParser.java:1052)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.AdditiveExpr(XPathParser.java:994)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.RelationalExpr(XPathParser.java:919)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.EqualityExpr(XPathParser.java:859)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.AndExpr(XPathParser.java:823)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.OrExpr(XPathParser.java:796)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.Expr(XPathParser.java:779)
	at org.apache.xpath.compiler.XPathParser.initXPath(XPathParser.java:172)
	at org.apache.xpath.XPath.<init>(XPath.java:202)
	at freemarker.ext.dom.XalanXPathSupport.executeQuery(XalanXPathSupport.java:107)
	... 97 more



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